Christ_empowered
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I had a legal situation that resolved well recently. I'm ashamed of my behavior, of course, but I also think some people tried to blow everything out of proportion.
More importantly...I've been burying things at the Foot of The Cross, and it works! Seriously, being Born Again is the best thing ever. I kept visualizing myself burying the past while praying. As time progressed, it started really affecting me. Not only is the past dead and gone (thanks only to Christ), so is much of the old me ("it is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me"). Yeah, the old man rises up more often than I'd like, but that's part of life here on earth, right?
Anyway, I'm not haunted by the past, rough as it may have been. Who I am is not defined by who I was, and that's only because of Jesus Christ. I used to think that Christians were putting on a show (this is before my repentance) when they talked about how we're all sinful and in constant need of grace.
Now, I'm at that point, finally. I think the only way to connect to Reality and live as a Real Human Being is to start to see the world a little more God's way, a good bit less our way. So, now, weirdly enough, I know I'm sinful and in constant need of grace, mercy, and sometimes even miracles, but I'm happier than when I was younger and thought God was foolishness and human beings were a-OK.
So, that's my praise report. And my suggestion to anyone who's still haunted by a past (I hear anyone over age 25 has one, lol) is to just bury it at the foot of the cross. At first, I though it'd be like a movie, you know...you pray it once, you bury it once, you move on, your life changes. Life isn't like that. I buried it, kept picking it up, and kept burying it again. Now, the Lord has seen fit to move me out of my inner-prison and out into the light of yet another day that was not promised me.
More importantly...I've been burying things at the Foot of The Cross, and it works! Seriously, being Born Again is the best thing ever. I kept visualizing myself burying the past while praying. As time progressed, it started really affecting me. Not only is the past dead and gone (thanks only to Christ), so is much of the old me ("it is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me"). Yeah, the old man rises up more often than I'd like, but that's part of life here on earth, right?
Anyway, I'm not haunted by the past, rough as it may have been. Who I am is not defined by who I was, and that's only because of Jesus Christ. I used to think that Christians were putting on a show (this is before my repentance) when they talked about how we're all sinful and in constant need of grace.
Now, I'm at that point, finally. I think the only way to connect to Reality and live as a Real Human Being is to start to see the world a little more God's way, a good bit less our way. So, now, weirdly enough, I know I'm sinful and in constant need of grace, mercy, and sometimes even miracles, but I'm happier than when I was younger and thought God was foolishness and human beings were a-OK.
So, that's my praise report. And my suggestion to anyone who's still haunted by a past (I hear anyone over age 25 has one, lol) is to just bury it at the foot of the cross. At first, I though it'd be like a movie, you know...you pray it once, you bury it once, you move on, your life changes. Life isn't like that. I buried it, kept picking it up, and kept burying it again. Now, the Lord has seen fit to move me out of my inner-prison and out into the light of yet another day that was not promised me.
