Charlie Brown: GET OVER YOURSELF!!! We all make mistakes, we all
question ourselves sometimes. Move on, grow up- again, get over
yourself!!!
Now, its easy to criticize a "sad sack" cartoon character who is way too
hard on himself, but its even easier to be too hard on yourself. Face
it, over-analyzing everything you do is a sure-fire path to mental
instability.
Make decisions and deal with the consequences. Paul did and we can too...
Philippians, Chapter 3 (World English Bible)
7 However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ. 8 Yes
most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency
of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss
of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain
Christ 9 and
be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of
the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness
which is from God by faith, 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death, 11 if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not
that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press
on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by
Christ Jesus.
13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (emp. added, vss. 13-14)
13 Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (emp. added, vss. 13-14)
Before becoming a Christian, Paul was a "somebody". Then, he was
confronted by the risen Christ and his life changed forever. Yet, he
still had the memory of his persecution of the church. His solution:
forget the past, look to the future and do what you must because of
Jesus.
True story, good lesson for us all and hope for the future.
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