Just For Today Learning To Let Go

Friday October 4, 2024

Anger

Just for today I will be joyful, optimistic, and grateful. I will take time to notice the gifts in me, in others, and in my surroundings and let the rest go.

Holding on to anger and pain doesn't fix anything. Burying a grudge deep within and putting layers of blame on top of the hurt doesn't bring healing.

Whether the wound is recent or something we have carried for a long time, perhaps today is the day to let go of the hurt within us so we can choose to be joyful, optimistic and grateful.

For everything there is a season … A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away. (Ecclesiastes 3:1a, 6 NLT)

Our shame about things done in the past is often the greatest barrier to living joyfully today. Jesus paid with His life so we could have eternal life and freedom from guilt and shame through forgiveness of our sins. The devil seeks to keep us hiding in the darkness of unforgiveness so we will feel like damaged goods. It’s time to let the past go into the cleansing river of God’s unlimited forgiveness.

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy. (Proverbs 28:13 NIV)

Admittedly, life isn’t perfect and we may face circumstances and challenges that seem bigger than we can handle. Thankfully we can let our feelings of worry and fear point us to our need for God’s help, which will surely be available if we ask for it. As many others have done in the past, let’s get rid of everything that slows us down and causes us to fall. Let’s notice the gifts we have been given and let the rest go.

We have all these great people around us as examples. Their lives tell us what faith means. So we, too, should run the race that is before us and never quit. We should remove from our lives anything that would slow us down and the sin that so often makes us fall. (Hebrews 12:1 ERV)

Prayer: Heavenly Father, You know me, and You know all about my circumstances and the state of my heart. I choose to let go of all unforgiveness and allow Your cleansing river to make me clean, so that I may have joy and peace in my life today and forevermore. Amen

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