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Sometimes I find it so easy to let my “used to be” (you know, the me without God) speak to who I am now.  I wallow in my shame, sadness and loss.  That’s not the greif that God desires for us or that Jesus made possible for us.  Again, that’s the old way and the old way leads to death.  Though I may still be alive, I might be better off dead if I live there, living a dead life.

No, God in all His mercy and love sent His Son to lift me out of the pit (and to add me to His team of lifters) so I would no longer have to live in that kind of greif.   In the new life I have greif that leads to life, that moves me forward in becoming who I am to be.

No regrets!

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death  2 Corinthians 7:10

I received the following in an email from my mother this morning . . .

The next time you feel like GOD can’t use YOU, just remember…

• Noah was a drunk
• Abraham was too old
• Isaac was a daydreamer
• Jacob was a liar
• Leah was ugly
• Joseph was abused
• Moses had a stuttering problem
• Gideon was afraid
• Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer
• Rahab was a prostitute
• Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
• David had an affair and was a murderer
• Elijah was suicidal
• Isaiah preached naked
• Jonah ran from God
• Naomi was a widow
• Job went bankrupt
• John the Baptist ate bugs
• Peter denied Christ
• The Disciples fell asleep while praying
• Martha worried about everything
• The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
• Zaccheus was too small
• Paul was too religious
• Timothy had an ulcer…AND
• Lazarus was dead!

When I really take a look at the examples of who God includes as major players in His story in scripture and throughout history I become more and more convinced that I have a part too!