Take the ride of your life

Sow seeds in someone else's life in order to help yourself and do so in a mindful way. This will help keep your mind off yourself, do anything you can to achieve that in order to get on with your life in a purposeful way. Put the Holy Spirit in charge of your case. He will not fail you.

Galatians 6:9-10  "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. ¹⁰ Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers". Recognise you have choices and make the right choice mindfully to help someone else every single day. Everybody knows somebody who needs help to put a smile on their face and if you don't then go find someone. There are many sad people in today's society. We need to think of them more and less of ourselves. This not only blesses them but blesses us too.

1 Thessalonians 5:15
 "Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else" - Do not stoop to another person's level in order to gain retribution. Retribution is a bitter and ungodly act. Instead, pray for them, do not say unkind things and you may have the opportunity to bless them with the Holy Spirit if God commands you to. Being full of hatred and bitterness is hard, forgiving is easy and a free pass to happiness, joy and freedom. Do not return evil for evil but seek to do good as this verse says.

Aim to always show kindness and seek to do good. The more practice you get the more natural it will become.

There is a reason why we are dysfunctional but we have to take responsibility for how we are going to overcome it. Stop explaining your bad traits away with your past issues of abuse, addiction and such. Are you waiting on God to heal you or is God watching and waiting on you trying first to heal yourself? Sometimes we believe that by walking away from the abuse and such that we have left it behind. We haven't. It's with us, inside us. It's that negative, angry voice that frequents our minds. The Holy Spirit will let you know when it is time to move on, when it's time to stop being angry, sad or hurting and time for you to be the person that God wants you to be and who Jesus died for you to be.

Don't run when things become painful. God will sometimes put things in our path, either present or past issues that our instinct reaction is "not that God, I'm not ready yet". But God knows if the time is right for us. Person after person after person in the Bible ran, Moses ran from Egypt, Hagar ran with a bad attitude, God told Jonah to go to Nineveh and he went in the opposite direction and ended up in the stomach of a whale, Elijah ran from Jezebel, sat under a tree and waited to die. Running is not going to do you any good, it did none of the above people any good. You are just putting off the inevitable. Face up to it knowing that God is right with you in your heart.

Forgive those who hurt you and forgive yourself.

Occasionally, or maybe more so we may find ourselves unhealthily indulging in a pity party where we might say things such as "well you just don't understand how hard it is" "you try being abused for 20 years then tell me how easy it is to heal" "the past is always with me, it shapes my present and my future". If you truly love God, let him have his way with your life. He wants you to be happy and he knows how you can achieve that. Settle down and put your trust in God. God wants so badly for you to be completely whole and live the life that Jesus died for you to live. The world is full of hurting wounded people who don't understand the love of God and are lost. In the midst of your mess you need to reach out to someone else and be a blessing to them. God listens for free. The Holy Spirit knows you intricately, he is your counsellor, your teacher, your guide. Put the Holy Spirit in charge of your case and decide to get well. God will help complete you and make you what you want to be.


 
And one important thing, enjoy the journey! There is no good achieved in being miserable for the next 40 yrs whilst God is trying to fix you, enjoy the ride, participate, feel it.


 
Are you ready to take the ride???