Do you ever wish you could just 'fix it'? It doesn't t matter if 'it' is a health issue, a family problem, a financial dilemma, friendship in need of repair, we want to fix it. Or at least I do. I can't stand that something can't be fixed. Yet in many cases, unless the person(s) turn to Jesus, there is no fix.
When you see someone hurting, don't you want to make the hurt go away? Even if you know their actions brought the hurt on them or at least contributed to it. God is a God of love but He still allows us to reap what we sow.
I've seen it so many times in my own life. I look at a circumstance that is so far from what I want or think is best and I realize, I sowed those seeds. This is my harvest. Thankfully there are a few times I can look and see a harvest that I'm not ashamed of. But often it is the carelessness of youth that or the disregard of wise counsel that sets our steps in motion.
Once we begin a path, we can find it hard to leave it and go to a better path. We may hate what this path is bringing but we are stubborn and self-willed. Maybe you are reading this and that wasn't the case with you, well God bless you! But most of the folks I know have been down that path at least a few times.
What is amazing to me is how often God forgives all the pain we cause, all the misdeeds we do. But while He does forgive, our actions can leave scars that we carry with us and those scars can impact us for years. If I were lost and were to murder someone, in prison should someone reach me with the gospel of Christ and I give my heart and life to Jesus, the prison doors are not going to automatically swing open.
The same is true of the scars you carry. I carry scars today, some are of actions done to me but others, the ones that usually bother me the most are scars of what I have done either to myself or others. I can never truly fix that situation. I hope by the grace of God to mend those situations with others. Daily I have to make the commitment to forgive myself for those things I've done. I thank God for His forgiveness, I pray that individuals will forgive me but I have to forgive myself unless I want those scars to continue to damage my life. Forgiving yourself and forgiving others is a process, you can't just wake up one day 'say I forgive' and it is over. The devil knows where those bodies are buried and he's going to do his best to use them against you.
Only God has the tools it takes to fix many things. We have to turn it over to Him. We must leave it there when we do. Failure to do that means the scars continue put up road blocks and hurt us. I hope today that you can make headway in finding the forgiveness you need. Forgiveness from the Savior, from others and from yourself. It is the only real fix. It is the way to move forward.
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