Everybody wants a better life. I don’t think I’ve ever met a single person who doesn’t have something they wish they could change, right? We each get that. And yet, all too often we blame that one thing out there somewhere that’s causing us grief, when actually the problem lies within.
I wonder if we were given the opportunity to look at our lives – our thoughts, our desires, our actions, our reactions – from the vantage point of heaven’s balcony, what we’d see … the things going on in our hearts, yours and mine, that grieve God, that make His heart ache for us, that He yearns to set us free from.
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (NIV)
Will you allow me to get in your face here today and ask you what are you thinking, desiring, doing, saying – what greed or selfishness or pride or anger or unforgiveness or resentment or whatever it happens to be – is robbing you of your best life and is grieving God deep in His heart?
It’s kind of weird how we want to hang onto those things without ever really admitting them to ourselves, without ever dealing with them decisively, once and for all.
What is it for you? What are you hanging on to? And if it breaks God’s heart, why do you imagine that it’ll fulfill your own?
Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Let it go.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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