There are things that we need to wait for in life and
they are indeed worth waiting for. But there are some things that God never
asks us to wait on. May the waiting be
over when it comes to:
1) Receiving God's forgiveness - let the sulking stop!
God's mercies are new every morning. His crazy and overflowing love we will
never understand, but all we have to do it is believe it and receive it. Pray to Him, He is waiting with open arms when his children come running back to him. Remember the story of the Prodigal son? What happened when the son returned? "And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him" (Luke 15:20). The Father was WAITING for his son, so is our Heavenly father waiting for us to return to him.
2) Getting back up - why wait one more day to get back
up? Who in their right mind, after falling embarrassingly on their face, and is
still able to get back up, stays down on the floor?? Imagine it...
"Hmm...I think I'm just gonna chill here...can somebody get me a
pillow!" Uh...No! God has designed us so that when we fall our natural
response is to get back up. One time I remember I was looking at a university
that I was interested in attending. They took us around the whole campus, and a
friend of mine stepped on a piece of string at the bottom of my cool
jeans...yes...you can imagine what happened next...I fell...on my face...and I
indeed froze for a few seconds on that pavement floor, but yes I got back up. I'm not writing this blog
from that place where I fell! Can you imagine if I was?? If you have fallen, sinned, made a mistake, failed in your attempt to do the things of God, don't wait anymore, get back up, brush the dust off and keep running.
3) Forgiving others - let me ask you this, what if God waited to pour out his forgiveness upon us? We would all be doomed! Doomed I tell you! Doomed! Praise the Lord that God is a forgiving God. And His Spirit lives inside of us so we can also forgive with the same divine "promptness" as our wonderful Father. The person we hurt the most when we don't forgive is ourselves. A lack of forgiveness is poison to the soul; the product is bitterness, resentment, anger, even hatred. So let's forgive, let's not wait to forgive as our Father does not wait to forgive us.
So don't wait any longer! Come to God, ask Him to forgive you and He will! Have you fallen? You can get back up! Nothing is impossible for God. And forgive! Forgive as Jesus forgave you. The Spirit of God will help you to do all of these things if you surrender to Him.
Love,
KT
