Let Your Mess Become Your Message

I read a book of daily devotions once called "A New Year, A New Me". The following messages I got from that book because I found they really spoke to me towards my life.

"I encourage people to let go of their past, but never to run from it. The only way to gain vistory over the pain of our past is to let God walk us back through that doorway of pain and into victory. No one can achieve victory for us; we have to work out our own salvation. Paul explained this truth in his letter to the Philipian chuch saying : (Philippians 2:12-13)

We have to let God take us through things and let Him work in us so our mess becomes our message. Difficult things that we have endured in our past prepare us for God's blessings in our future."

-Have you ever wondered why you can never seem to let go of your past? Why difficult struggles, or experiences you went through, you can never seem to forget? Have you ever just wanted something to go away so much, and you really convinced yourself that you have forgivin what ever caused you that pain, but it never seems to fade? Somethings in life God wants you to let go of and forget, and He will make those things known to you, and will allow you to let go and forget. But sometimes its the HARDEST moments in your life where you've felt asshamed, failure, defeat.. that you just can't seem to know matter how hard you try- to forget them. Its these things that God wants you to remember because it's in these things that God knows you can use to your advantage. Failure leads to success, and mistakes lead to perfection. God is useing these very hard times to show you something- perhaps to show you "look, you made it through this, you can make it through anything", or maby even to remind you that the knowledge of your mistakes made, could help be known and become awear to certain people around you, so that they too don't make the same mistakes you did. The greatest story of a person is their testimony. It is in that moment that they realize, life was not promised to be easy, fun, or fair. It was not promises to be full of wealth and envy. It was just promised that If you live according to god, to serve him, to minister to others what you know and have experienced- that you would have eternal life.