God Saw it Coming

Sometimes I get so caught up in my mistakes.  How could God love someone so flawed?  How could God keep putting up with me when I keep making some of the same mistakes? I can be really hard on myself, and I am constantly searching myself to figure out how in the world I let things get so bad sometimes.  I guess I believe that if I beat everyone else to the punch at chastising myself it won't feel so bad when others do it.  Unfortunately for me I am worse to myself than most other people in my life including God.  I know that it is sad to God when I fail a test or get too into my agenda and end up misrepresenting him, but God sees it all coming.  Because God knows the end from the beginning, he is already prepared for every failure that I will make.  This helps me to stop getting too down on myself because I can look to God and say "Lord I am sorry, and I know that you have already grieved this moment in the beginning. Help me to do better than I did. Where do I go from here?"  Life with God does not end when we make mistakes, but we need to seek the Lord to guide us in a better way.  If you have hurt people, make it right.  If you have commited a crime, turn yourself in.  If it is between you and God, then repent.  When you are done with all of this, then keep moving forward.  That is what I am trying to do.  I can't stand the fact that I am not perfect.  It bothers me all the time, but God is perfect and if I keep my focus on him then I will be more and more like him.  My advice for anyone who feels like they have missed the mark in any way is to never hide your face from God.  Look to him, run to him, and stay up under his shadow.  Don't run away from God because he already knows what you did, said, and thought.  Hold on to God with everything that you are because he won't throw you away. 

This also applies to every emergency that comes into our lives.  God saw it coming.  Every financial struggle, every sickness, and every broken relationship God knew about ahead of time.  It is a little bit of consolation for me to know that God saw my every struggle coming and he has a plan.  God doesn't just watch the world; he orchestrates events to guide us along our way.  We may get all bothered and panicked about situations, but there have been many times when I was in tears and then it turned out that I felt really overdramatic.  God has always taken care of me to the point where I feel ridiculous worrying about anything.  Lord help me to remember how well you've already taken care of me. 

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