Re-Do…No DIY Here
Too many times I need a re-do – my attitude, my words, my actions, even my thoughts.
There’s mom-guilt, forgot to say thank you guilt, bad judgement guilt, selfishness guilt – and the list goes on. So wishing we could re-do: wipe out the things we wish we had known better than and erase the things we did know better than.
“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” (2Corinthians 5:17 NLT)
What – we do have a re-do? Belong to Christ – guilt can be gone…and we can have a new attitude, kinder words. Can have now, will have in eternity. Now is a choice. We have the Holy Spirit in us and He is ever true and present. We can be made new now but we have to cooperate with God, we have to say no to self – yes to Jesus. Let go of guilt that imprisons us – instead of just burying it – and be set free.
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1 NIV)
Stand firm – that’s our part – but like a toddler learning to walk, God takes us by the hands and helps us toddle ever closer to standing our ground in Him. The more we live in His freedom the more the old life is gone. Oh someday we will toddle right into His waiting arms, for now He wants to show us the way.
“Jesus answered ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.” (John 14:6a NIV)
So, yes, you and me, we do need a re-do – and the great news is, we get one. The moment we say ‘Yes’ to Jesus, the re-do begins and someday it will be complete. In the meantime, all those trying times, all the things we regret, all the changing that will happen – that’s how it is here. We grow more through our weaknesses than our strengths. In our strength it’s all about us, in our weakness we learn it’s all about Him.
Yes, Father, re-do us and help us let worry, fear, regret, and guilt be removed as far as east is from west – let us live in our new life that has already begun. (No DIY here.)
parisrenae 
Hi Paris. Love your “no DIY theme” in this post! “In our strength it’s all about us, in our weakness we learn it’s all about Him.” Well said and Amen!
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Yes, so true we cannot re-do on our own – and that is the best thing isn’t it? To know He loves us so much that He has done and will do what we cannot, what an amazing God! Blessings as He works in and through you…
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Yay for re-dos! And for no shame in needing them!
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Cheering right along side you – and yes, all shame is gone, we are new creations day by day and on into eternity. Blessings as you hold His hands…
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Love this Paris! No DIY here! I pray, “Yes, Father, re-do ME and help ME let worry, fear, regret, and guilt be removed as far as east is from west – let ME live in MY new life that has already begun. (No DIY here.)”
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Robin – that is a great prayer, and on my knees a lot with those words 🙂 Blessings abundantly as you live your new life now and on in to eternity…
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Guilt *is* a prison, isn’t it? So, so true, friend. I’ve spent too much time in that prison over the years. Praise God for the new life we have in Christ. Humbling. Comforting. Freeing. xoxo
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