Dwelling

Todays since it is New years eve and we are bout to enter a new year, I felt I should talk about dwelling. Even though to me, now a days New years eve is nothing but another day, just the next day is a new year starting. A lot of people like to try to leave old habits in the last year. One big habit I have and I know others have is dwelling, dwelling on the past, whats going happen in the future, what someone did to you, whether to forgive them or not. The first thing I am going talk about is Forgiveness in its entirety. A lot of people talk about I'll forgive someone but I wont forget what they did. I'm going tie Forgiveness and being able to forget together, and why its better to do both at the same time.

Mark 11:26 says "But if you do not forgive neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses"

Now, a person can be the greatest and a perfect angel, but because they hold hate in their heart towards another person, for what ever actions, they might not go to heaven. How does a person expect God to forgive them of their wrongs when they can not forgive another person. A person can not truly forgive another person if they still hold those thoughts of the action the other person may have done. Now some people may say I do not want to be a fool for no one. This brings me to two examples, the first one is Matthew 6:14 which reads.

"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you"

Another verse in the bible talking about forgiving and God forgiving you. Now you say you do not want to be a fool for putting your trust in that person again. Matthew 6:24-25 reads.

"No one can serve Two masters; for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mommon. Therefore I say you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. is not life more then food and the body more than clothing?"

With that said, you forgive that person and you accept them back in to your life. Do you not believe that God will watch over you if that person does you wrong again. What if you turn your back on God and he says he is done with you. That other person might need your guidance in the future. If God has placed that person in your life, it is for a reason. When that reason has been fulfilled I am sure he will take them out once again.

But I am going use that same verse to talk about dwelling on life too. If you want to re read the verse you can, but look at what it is saying. If your sitting there worried about what the next day is going bring, can you 100 percent can say that you trust in God. Matthew 5:26 reads,

"Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?"

Look at what it is saying. The birds carry on with their day to day activities, and God makes sure that they are taken care of. They do not worry, but us of mankind with our built in emotion worry bout things like this. Where is our next meal coming? How am I going get money to survive? If you truly believe in God, do you not think he sees your situation and will take care of your problems. One has to be able to let go and let God. As long as you believe in him 100 percent, I am sure he will take care of you. I found myself at time worry about little things as money problems. Many times God let it pass and still made sure I had the money I needed for shelter. But when I was in Greensboro, I panic and did not know what I was going to do. Before I trusted in God I gave up. Packed all my stuff and moved back to my parents and lost my own place of residents before I even tried to talk to my Landlord. Sometimes I regret I did that, But like Ecclesiastes 7:10 I learn I should not dwell on what I had. I can not turn back the hands of time and get what I once had. I just have to look at what I do have and see where it carries me.

Matthew 6:22-23 reads,

"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness. how great is that darkness!"

I believe this is saying if your not seeing positive things for yourself, then you are basically dying inside. That when people slip into a depression. Depression is that darkness within. Some time it is hard to see positive when the world does not provide it, but some times a person has to seek out that positive for their self to get it. That all comes from trusting in God, and his abilities to make your life better.