What Goes Around...comes around

That old saying, “what goes around comes around” has not been a motto that I have lived my life by. I have no desire in seeking vengeance as that is best left for the Master. He is suited for that type of work. There are different understandings one could have from this motto. I am best trained to listen and follow His call, letting the chips fall as they may. The scriptures are filled with wisdom for dealing with crises, choices, and responses to situations and experiences. I have known individuals who have repeatedly acted the say way expecting difference results. That mindset may provide you with the sense of being a “positive thinker” but it is all false senses. Without corrective actions in our lives, and thoughts we are set to repeat the same experiences without change. We can make adjustments, we could tweak our reactions and we could set out on a new course, if we would dare.
I announced 1 John 4:10 was my scripture for 2011 and I have begun my studies in learning more about Jesus and His will and plan for my life. One of the keys to making a difference is for us to individually understand why some things are as they exist. “In this act we see what real love is: It is not our love for God but His love for us when He sent His son to satisfy God’s anger against our sins.”
Have you battled within yourself to make changes while all along remaining on the short end of the stick not able to accomplish your goals? It is an understandable assumption that if this describes you and where you’ve been, then if could be you have missed the key to a turning your life around totally. It would be great to say “I made a change”, “I have worked to resolve this”, “I fixed this, I, I, I, & I”. Most of us miss the answer we seek because we are looking for the answer within ourselves. Recovery from old habits involves us making one confession. We are dependant upon God and His gifts. It is His work through us that makes us able to lead in the area of change and to survive the most challenging of situations that will seem to max us out.
The recovery I am writing about in this column has everything to do with us tapping into His resources. Jesus has provisions and His grace is sufficient for our every hour. The problem some find themselves battling is that they have no patience for His timing and their demand for an immediate response removes not just opportunity from Him but ability too. My yearly scripture I selected clearly states what real love is, and in my journey this year I have already learned that in order for me to live a life filled with promise, hope and faith, I must practice love in restoring broken relationships so the cycle of “what goes around comes around” in a new way. I have already learned that having fellowship with believers is also most important to our healing and new vision for our lives. Real Christians will automatically demonstrate the love we are so in need of and without even asking, God will be meeting our needs through the obedience of others. In every fashion of phrasing and understanding, this is the type of “what goes around comes around”, I want.
Now this first month of 2011 I have been reminded that Love is the Key to Life, just as the Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 13: It is not everyday we begin the right searches in our lives, but I am confident this is one search I don’t want to miss.

Until then