Learning how to move on was extremely difficult for me to learn. After all the hurt that I experience, I had to realize that Jesus wasn’t feeling sorry for me, but he was telling me to GET UP! In John 5:1-17, the pool of Bethesda was where crowds of sick people would gather because if they could touch the bubbles of the water, they would be healed. One man had been lying there for 38 years. When Jesus saw him, he knew that the man had been ill and he asked him, “Would you like to get well?” “I can’t,” said the man, “For I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up.”
This is saying that healing is right in front of us, but the problems in our lives get in the way of the victory. To be honest, most of us enjoy the pity party. You would have thought that the man would have somehow worked his way to the bubbles of the water over the 38 year period, but he didn’t want too.
Jesus replied in John 5:8, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!”
Rise above the problem, and take your mess with you. Jesus didn’t sit down with the man and joined the pity party. He wanted the man to straighten up his life and get his act together. Once the man started walking, he was healed. Once we straighten up our lives, we will be healed.
It’s time to get on with get on with our lives. We don’t have to be depressed, miserable, or sad if things aren’t going as planned. It’s a great idea to stop telling everybody that they don’t understand. We all understand. Maybe we don’t understand the particular problem, but we understand pain. It is time to get up, and take our mess with us.
It’s time to make that decision to get well and be different. God is alive; therefore, we can’t be the same person. It’s time to make a choice in your life. 1.) Think about your problems. Or number 2.) Think about what you can do for someone else.
Invest your time with somebody; therefore, your thoughts won’t be surrounded by your problems. Galatians 6:6-10 says that we are taught the word of God, and we should share it with others. We reap what we sow. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature, but those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. Therefore, don’t get tired of doing what is good because we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. When we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone.
We always know somebody that we can encourage, and we always know how to put a smile on their face. If you don’t know anybody, go find somebody.
The hardest part for me to overcome was 1 Thessalonians 5:15. You should never pay back evil for evil. You think that if someone hurts you, then you have the right to hurt them back. However, we should aim and seek and to do good. Praise God that he is giving us a challenge in our lives because in the hard times, it gives us a chance to grow. Bless the people who hurt you, and most importantly, pray for them. Pray that God will show them mercy, and he will bless them because they need it more than we do.
God gave me a revelation that I wasn’t waiting on Him, but He was waiting on me.
It’s time to give up excuses. We just need to learn how to cooperate, and stop taking the problems with us. It’s time to stop being touchy an always getting our feelings hurt. Praise God that we have feelings because that proves that we have a soft heart, but it’s time to stop being so upset. It’s time to make your bed, and live the life that Jesus has called you to live. It’s time to be the person that God is wanting you to be.
It is time to face the truth, and stop wanting to God to change them, but allow God to change you.
Everything that we go through that is hard, but it brings freedom in our lives. It brings another level of joy. Don’t be overly concerned about what people think. Don’t be insecure. Don’t try to buy their relationship. God shows us their weaknesses, so we don’t put too much thought and confidence in them, but put it all in HIM. It’s hard, but it sets us free. Don’t be devastated and shocked by people’s actions.
Genesis 16:8-9 reminds us that when it becomes painful, don’t run. God will put us with somebody that is really hard on us. They aren’t right in what they are doing, but God uses them to do something in us.
The only way to get up and move on is to forgive. Let God have his way with you. It is time to just trust God. If you want to blame somebody for your pain; blame the devil.
I don’t believe that people intentionally set out to hurt us, but we just got in their way of hurting. The world is full of hurt, and it’s time to reach out to somebody else and move on.
It’s time to put the Holy Spirit in charge of your case. He knows the situation, and he’ll complete it. God will make you whole.
It isn’t going to do us any good to be miserable, so we need to enjoy the day. We need to thank God for all that he has done, and pray that he will continue to do a work in us.
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