Good Monday morning, my friends.
What do you regret most in your life? Bad decisions made in your youth? A deteriorating relationship with your spouse? Time not spent with your kids when they were younger? What is it that sometimes eats away at your soul?
This was the topic of a sermon I heard yesterday. It sounds pretty depressing, and that is certainly the way it started out. But in the end it was very freeing and uplifting. We do not have to live with regrets and live in the past, no matter what has happened there. God promises in Joel 2:25a that when we turn back to Him, He "will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten"! Yes, we may have wasted many years, many opportunities, but we are still living and still breathing. Like He did with Job, God will can and will restore us and prosper us.
What does that mean?
It means it is time to plant another harvest.
It is time to start now to rebuild what has been broken down; build anew that which has been lost.
When you come to Christ and repent, and let Him fill you up with His life, He will more than make up for these wasted years by an ever increasing Love from and for him. This will fill you up and will flow over to others, including prodigal spouses and broken family relationships. God can and will restore you and heal your broken relationships! (David Wilkerson - http://jesushealsmarriages.org/pain-and-hurt/god-will-restore-all-your-wasted-years-by-david-wilkerson/285/)
It may not look exactly like what was there before – but then again, it may be a lot better.
Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Bruce
Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion;
to you our vows will be fulfilled.
O you who hear prayer,
to you all men will come.
When we were overwhelmed by sins,
you forgave our transgressions.
Blessed are those you choose
and bring near to live in your courts!
We are filled with the good things of your house,
of your holy temple
Psalm 65:1-4
Dear Lord, sometimes it seems we lose more and more ground to the 'locusts' in our lives.
Restore what the 'locusts' have eaten,
restore us, Lord.
Amen.
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