Oh my gosh!! Sometimes, those are the only three words I can come up with that describe what The Ultimate Journey has done.
Do you ever wish you could rewind the clock and handle something differently? Unfortunately, time machines are only in the movies. However, life does have a way of putting similar circumstances and situations in your path. Unless you intentionally take steps now to change, you will probably respond out of the same pattern and get the same results. Following the examples below, you can use your situations as catalysts of change to healthier more productive responses.
- If you sinned or made a poor choice, remember, it’s the enemy that wants to control you by bringing you under condemnation. Condemnation will drive you away from God. Submit to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Conviction will draw you to God.
- If you feel yourself pulling away from God and beating yourself up, recognize that you are listening to the enemy rather than to God. Stop going down the path you are headed on. Turn around and start heading towards God.
- Admit your mistake. Confess your sin. Repent. Take deliberate, intentional, positive steps forward in the right direction. Receive God’s forgiveness.
- Come into alignment with God by forgiving yourself.
- Describe the events leading up to the situation. (I was at work and came home late for dinner)
- What triggered your reaction? (My spouse said I am missing out on some really important time with the family)
- Describe your reaction (I got upset at myself for coming home late again and took it out on my spouse)
- How did the situation end? (I snapped at my spouse and walked out of the room)
- What were you feeling just before you entered the situation? (Upset about letting myself get roped into working late again. Guilty for not being there for my family like I want to be. Afraid my spouse would be upset)
- Describe how you felt during the situation? (Frustrated, not understood)
- How did you feel after the situation ended? (Frustrated, angry at myself, not good enough)
- Possible affect of other recent events. Look over the events of the past few days. Is it possible that a recent event was affecting you and that you filtered the situation through those feelings/glasses?
- Possible affect of historical events. Can you think of any other times in your life when you had similar feelings as to what you felt in this situation? If you do, it could still be “unfinished business” that is contaminating the present. What were the circumstances of that past event? Who was involved? Do you need to go back and view that situation as an adult and ally yourself?
- If you want to respond to something differently, you have to carve out a new mental riverbed for those things to flow through.
- Take time to read back over your Christ-In-Me and Christ-Through-Me identity statements.
- Is this something that is already addressed in your identity statements and you just need to be sowing more of that seed into the field of your mind, or do you need to write a new one for this particular issue?