I was praying to my Father God about my regrets of all my failures as a believer – thinking that He must make adjustments for in His plan for me. He reminded me that ALL my “failures” ARE INDEED PART OF HIS PLAN; no adjusting necessary. Oh how that frees me! And oh how that encourages me to confidently persevere in His perfect love and graciousness.
How can I think that God, in His FOREKNOWLEDGE, wasn’t already aware of all my failures, even the ones still ahead, before I was ever born? Our human weakness is NO surprise to God. My ‘occasional’ worldly choices have not altered His plan to bring me into His eternal Kingdom. Jesus told His disciples that He would NOT lose one that the Father gives Him. And I know, without a doubt, that I am one of His, even if I fail to obey His Word a little, or alot. What gives me this assurance and peace - other than the Holy Spirit that God poured into me when I first believed in Him.
Do I have any personal responsibility? Of course! At the end of each day (and at each beginning), HE is still the One I freely talk to, offer up praise to, bring all my secret thoughts and desires to, asking for strength and wisdom to live for Him. “Living before the Lord day and night – acknowledging Him in all my ways” – is all He is asking me to do!
Like God’s apostle Paul said, and I put it this way: There is a continual battle within me, so that what I do that does NOT honor God, I do, but I don’t want to do! And what I SHOULD do that honors God, I don’t always do - because of how I’m still in this world and all its temptations, and within this body of fleshly desires and weaknesses.
FAILURE on my part, does NOT forfeit God’s amazing GRACE. To deny the truth about God will forfeit His grace. God’s goodness to me is not based on my perfection but HIS! So then, I must decrease (humbly live before Him in surrender to His will) so that He can increase in my life (for HIS strength is made perfect in my weakness)!
Jesus said, “If you remain in Me, I WILL remain in you, and you will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do NOTHING (that could ever honor and glorify ME).” So, I will continue to worship my God in spirit and in truth!
I will continue to call on the Lord day and night because of who HE IS and who I am to Him according to His own Word. I will not allow the enemy any victory to keep me stuck on my failures but will confidently remind ‘him’ of his own HUGE failure and eternal destiny in the eternal place God has prepared for him and all those who follow him in denial and dishonor to God. I don’t believe he likes to be reminded of that. The devil hates God and all God’s promises! But I love my Father God and all His promises! So I choose, to walk and live in the LIGHT of my glorious God looking forward to ALL God’s promises being fulfilled. OH HAPPY DAY!
