MatthewFive
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- Jan 16, 2012
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What if we were given a chance to start over? Not from birth, but tomorrow. Simply wake up and our lives are different, but everything in our previous life is still there and we can simply return to it if we so choose.
What if it was possible to simply walk away from our addictions and our vices, simply to start completely over? It would mean learning to let go of our past yet still remember it vividly. It would require not only forgiving ourselves for the things we have done to others, but also forgiving others for what they have done to us.
It would require a commitment to follow the path we wish we would have chosen in the first place, even with the knowledge that we wouldn't be who we are today without having gone through our lives as it unfolded before us.
Because of our choices we have become what we are today, but we have the choice to change it and make it new again simply by letting go of our past and allowing ourselves to live once again.
This does not come without a price because every deed does not go unpunished. We have the ability, though, to find that new life because the price has already been paid. Jesus paid for it with his life, so we could continue on with ours.
The ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate price all men pay is death. Through death comes resurrection and the ability to live ones life for the good of it. No sorrow or guilt, pain or anguish, but comfort, harmony, and respect for both ourselves and others. Jesus died so we could live, and it is only through His guidance and His forgiveness that enables us to live again.
John 14:6 - "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the father except through me."
What if it was possible to simply walk away from our addictions and our vices, simply to start completely over? It would mean learning to let go of our past yet still remember it vividly. It would require not only forgiving ourselves for the things we have done to others, but also forgiving others for what they have done to us.
It would require a commitment to follow the path we wish we would have chosen in the first place, even with the knowledge that we wouldn't be who we are today without having gone through our lives as it unfolded before us.
Because of our choices we have become what we are today, but we have the choice to change it and make it new again simply by letting go of our past and allowing ourselves to live once again.
This does not come without a price because every deed does not go unpunished. We have the ability, though, to find that new life because the price has already been paid. Jesus paid for it with his life, so we could continue on with ours.
The ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate price all men pay is death. Through death comes resurrection and the ability to live ones life for the good of it. No sorrow or guilt, pain or anguish, but comfort, harmony, and respect for both ourselves and others. Jesus died so we could live, and it is only through His guidance and His forgiveness that enables us to live again.
John 14:6 - "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the father except through me."
