God qualifies the unqualified. This is a statement that continuously makes its rounds and for good reason. If there’s one thing I do unprovoked its disqualifying myself and I’m sure the same is true to some people as well.
Making it out of a rough patch, much like a battle you come out with battle wounds. Say you conquer suicidal thoughts or anxiety, you may be left with thoughts like “will I succumb once again to my old way of thinking”, “what if this is a temporary relief”. These wounds are humanly valid, I mean, u overcame a huge mental battle but the trick here is you didnt conquer in your own accord or might but it was all the Lord’s doing/power. It’s God who showed you mercy and took you out of that rut therefore it is also He who will sustain you.
A major way God sustains us is by instructing us not to look back. I’ll bring you to the Bible story in Genesis about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. This city was knee deep in sin, honestly the moral compass in that city was non-existant and the Lord was set to destroy it. God had mercy over Lot and his family (wife, two daughters) and instructed them to run to the next village before He brought destruction to the city, He also left them with one solid instruction besides “run for your life” and it was “Do not look back”. (A full account is on Genesis 19)
Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon. Then the LORD rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky of Sodom and Gomorrah. He utterly destroyed them, along with other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. But Lot's wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt. Genesis 19 verses 23-26 NLT.
Looking back was at Lot’s wife’s detriment, God did something for her family; He saved them from destruction and He gave her one instruction so she can continue to preserve her life after escaping death which was not looking back, yet she looked back and that ended her in an instance.
I’m brought to doing a further introspection on my life, that when God saves me from something be it negative thoughts, anxiety and I still choose to look back and ponder on “how he actually healed me or saved me from it and if i’m still that bad person”. That makes me no better than Lot’s wife who looked back and died because I appear as if I do not have faith in what God has done and I want to validate it for myself. Whereas something very true about the Lord is that, what He says is final and I can only just believe that because when Truth (God) speaks then it is true.
Instead of looking into former things, we should look at how God can bring so much abundance and life out of a barren place. For example, Abraham became the father of many nations and his wife Sarah was known to be barren yet descendent came through that once barren woman, why? Because God!
Now take a look at yourself and believe what God says about you. With the amount of negative thoughts I’ve overcome, i should be the last person igniting positive thinking out of people. But God says otherwise.
In conclusion God’s transforming power breaks all protocol and it can’t be validated by you or anyone. So stop trying to, myself included ✋️.
I need to to thank you for this good read!! I definitely loved every little bit of it. I have you book-marked to look at new things you postÖ