Moving on From Mistakes – How Great is Each New Day – Purity 1827
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Good morning,
Today’s photo of a view of the fountain and leaf spotted surface of the Schuylerville Basin comes to us from yours truly as I captured this serene scene while TammyLyn, my then fiancé, did business with the Schuylerville Post Office back on November 6, 2021.
Well, It’s Saturday and it’s funny to think about how much things changed back in 2021 and how the Lord helps us move one from our past mistakes. If we believe the ideal marriage is one that lasts a lifetime, I would have to admit that my rocky marriage to my ex of 19 years was a mistake. Even though we loved one another and raised a couple of children, we weren’t built to last and because hindsight is 20-20, I can see several points in our relationship where we could have acted differently or where I could have ended or avoided the relationship all together. But we can’t turn back time, as they say.
After the breakup and extended divorce from summer of 2018 to winter of 2019 and all the pain I had gone through in my first marriage, I wasn’t exactly looking for love. When I purchased my new house “down by the River” in Stuyvesant, I thought of it as my “Monk House” and “My End Game House” because I envisioned that I would spend the rest of my life as a single and die there. I wasn’t against the idea of another marriage; I just didn’t think it was likely. When you try to live your life on the “path of Christian discipleship”, walking in the Spirit, in this post-Christian age, you sort of prepare yourself for walking alone.
But God had different ideas, I guess, because in 2021, I launched a freedom ministry at my old church and started the MT4Christ247 podcast, and those two things were used by the Lord to bring TammyLyn Seguin into my life. That year we became friends, were engaged, and were married on New Year’s Day 2022.
Even though I never thought I would marry again, the Lord helped me to move on from past mistakes and now I wake up each day thanking the Lord for Christian bride that He gave me in TammyLyn. Considering all the things that God has done in my life, I can thank God how great He is each new day.
Speaking of moving on and experience the joy of each new day, the Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah devotion for this weekend, addresses being freed of our burdens and I am sharing it on the blog today to remind us that God’s mercies are new each and every day. Davide Jeremiah writes:
HOW GREAT IS EACH NEW DAY
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22-23
In the 1993 romantic comedy movie Groundhog Day the main character gets stuck in a time loop in which he relives February 2 day after day. He wakes up every morning knowing exactly what is going to happen that day, unburdened by the things that happened the day before.
Imagine waking up every morning burdened by the mistakes you made the day before. Since we make mistakes nearly every day, their accumulated burden would soon become intolerable.
Thankfully, that is not the case! The Bible says that God’s mercy and compassion are new every morning. Instead of being consumed by the judgment of God, we are gifted a great new day.
That doesn’t mean that our sins and mistakes are insignificant.
But it does mean that God’s mercy and compassion keep us in His care in spite of our failures.
Forgiven, we are free to live every day without the burden of yesterday’s sins.
Let this truth be your last thought at night and your first thought in the morning. And praise God for each and every new day!” – David Jeremiah
Christianity is getting older every year. Yet it is also new, new every morning.
John R. W. Stott
Amen. After losing my job two weeks ago, because of my mistakes, I wake up each morning having to live in the consequences of that reality.
Yup, it’s a new day… but the job’s still gone. I made a mistake, and it has cost me dearly.
However, even though I have to wake up each morning to the “new normal” of being fired, I don’t have to be burdened by the guilt and shame of the mistake I made back in August.
Because I am a Christian, I know that every mistake, every sin, I have made or will ever make has been forgiven because of my faith in Jesus.
But the only way that I can experience peace, joy, and hope in a life that has been plagued by poor decisions, selfish actions, and blunders is to accept God’s forgiveness and to move forward without the guilt or shame associated with my mistakes.
Even though I will have to deal with the consequences of my actions, I don’t have to be burdened by my past mistakes in my soul. Jesus came to give us peace. So, we should receive it each morning.
Thank God for His forgiveness and enter each day knowing that you have been set free from the guilt, shame, and condemnation associated with your sin.
While you will have to deal with the consequences of what you have done, you don’t have to be burdened by them. If you have done wrong, seek forgiveness, commit yourself to doing what is right, and move forward.
God has given us Jesus to set us free and because of what He has done for us, we can start each day rejoicing in His love.
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For those who want more evidence for Christianity than my simple encouragements provide, I offer apologist, Frank Turek’s website, https://crossexamined.org/.
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Today’s Bible verse comes to us from “The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling” By John G. Kruis.
(While Bible verses on various topics of Counseling can be found with a quick Google search, we encourage you to purchase this resource to support the late author’s work. (The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling By John G. Kruis on Amazon )
This morning’s meditation verses come from the section on Persecution.
Hebrews 10:32–39
Hebrews 10:33–35 (NLT) Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever. So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!
Today’s verses fall under the nineteenth point of our counseling reference guide resource section on Persecution.
19. Hebrew Christians stood their ground under persecution and were rewarded for it.
Today’s Bible verses describe the possible consequences of persecution – public ridicule, beatings, imprisonment, and utter destitution – but paradoxically describes those going through those significant trials as having accepted their lumps with joy!
Joy? What in the world is there to be joyful about – being insulted publicly, or getting beaten, or getting thrown in jail, or having everything you own taken away from you?
Absolutely nothing of course, but it wasn’t the persecution that gave those first century saints joy. It wasn’t the “what” of what they went through that gave them joy. It was the “why” behind their persecution that gave them to meet their suffering with endurance and enthusiasm. They weren’t suffering not for the wrongs they had done or for their past mistakes. They were suffering because of their relationship with Jesus and their efforts to represent Him faithfully. And they could rejoice because they not only confirmed their faith by the things they were willing to suffer through, suffering Christian rejoice because they know that their God lives and will reward them for their faithfulness.
All men suffer and die, but those who put their faith in Christ will live with Him in glory forever. That is why Christians can endure persecution with joy.
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Today we continue sharing from “Day by Day Along the Way” By Jay E. Adams.
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Day 326
The Jews were more noble than those of Thessalonica … – Acts 17:11
Here is the one exception to the negative reception that Paul and his team received from the Jews so far. Again and again the Jews attempted to hinder the preaching of the Gospel. Here, however, they turned to the Bible for themselves, and searched whether the things that Paul said were true. As a result, many Jews in Berea believed. The reason so many do not believe in our time is that they never study the Bible earnestly to see whether or not the Gospel is true. God uses the Bible to bring men to faith. Indeed, all faith ultimately stems from the Word of God (Romans 10:17). That is why experiences, testimonies—as good as they may be in their place—may never replace the preaching of the Scriptures. Do you urge your unsaved friends and relatives to turn to the Bible to see for themselves whether what God said there is what they need to hear? Let me urge you to tell people to search—and believe.[1]
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[1] Jay E. Adams, Day by Day along the Way (Cordova, TN: Institute for Nouthetic Studies, 2020), 334.
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