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Start Clean Each Day
Our time here on this earth is so short. What a shame it would be to allow something that happened in the past -- whether it was twenty years ago or twenty minutes ago -- to ruin the rest of this day.
When you get up in the morning, you may recall all the mistakes you made yesterday. You can probably list a complete inventory of everything you did wrong, the times you blew it, when you had a bad attitude, or when you were undisciplined.
No, don't start your day off like that. Get up in the morning and say, "I may not have done what I could have yesterday, but that day's gone. I'm going to get up and do better today."
If you blew your diet yesterday, quit thinking about it. That day's over. Get up and do better today. If you heap guilt on yourself, you'll make excuses and you'll go out and eat fourteen gallons of ice cream today! Let it go.
Maybe you were short-tempered with one of your employees last week. Let it go and do better next week.
Maybe you spent too much money last week. Let it go and do better this week.
Any morning you get up feeling guilty about yesterday, if you fail to correct it right then and there, that day's going to be ruined as well. You'll drag around depressed and defeated. Don't fall into that trap.
Instead, get up every morning and receive God's love and mercy. When you make mistakes, don't beat yourself up over them. Nobody is perfect. You simply need to ask God for forgiveness and then move on, confident that the moment you ask, God forgives you.
God does not want you to mope around defeated. He wants you to get up and move on. Not only does God forgive you, but He chooses not to remember your mistakes. If somebody keeps bringing up negative incidents from your past, you know that's not God. You may have done some things you're not proud of, but when you asked God to forgive you, He washed those things away. Furthermore, He doesn't even keep a record of it. He's not going to flip back through His files one day and say, "Oh, wait a minute. I found something on your record back there in 2005. I can't bless you."
No, as far as God is concerned, you don't even have a past. It's forgiven and gone. You are ready for a great present and a bright future. God let go of the past. The question is: Will you let it go? Will you quit remembering what God has chosen to forget?
From:
"Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now -
90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential"
Author: Joel Osteen
Posted: April 5, 2008 |
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Posted by ColoradoDreamin on 2008-04-05 20:44:47 | Rating: | Views: 89
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What a wonderful way to start a day!! We recently received some bad news, and each day since then, I wake up with, what seems to be this heavy cloud hanging over my head, I can't seem to crawl out from under it. I keep thinking "Now What?" It doesn't seem real to me yet, so I'm not ready to talk about it. But I have always been such a faithful person, and right now, I'm having a difficult time keeping that faith in the for front of my mind. It tends to drift, and my day takes that awful punch to the stomach out of no where that leaves me sick. I need to remember God not only forgives, but also guides our lives, and when he closes one door, he always opens another. Thank you my deaar friend, for reminding me to look ahead, and not dwell on what is behind us. I luv U!!
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Posted by keepdreaming
on 2008-04-06 01:23:52
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Wonderful post!! Thank you for the reminders to begin each new day with God and His word. I need a new devotional...must get myself to B&N! Thanks, CODreamin'! God bless, my friend.
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Posted by Ellie2008
on 2008-04-06 16:54:39
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thanks, I really needed to read this tonight!
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Posted by roe
on 2008-04-06 23:51:59
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That was a great post and so true. Each day we have an opportunity to do better - no sense in harping on the mistakes of the day before.
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Posted by Meredith
on 2008-04-07 10:56:23
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Its always a pleasure to read your posts...each post is so optimistic, it always makes me smile :) Thank you for this...
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Posted by angelwings
on 2008-04-08 02:40:19
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Mr. Osteen is one smart Mister.
I have another close friend who watches Osteen.
I have never watched him myself, but between the two of you, I know Osteen.
Peace
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Posted by DifficultSoul
on 2008-04-10 12:55:05
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