Write Today’s New Chapter

Happy Monday! “Choose your rut carefully. You will be in it for a long time.” – Sign on a remote road in Alaska

Have you ever said, “I’m in a rut”? We do have a tendency to choose bad habits at times and seem “stuck.” Every day, we have the opportunity to write a new chapter on a clean white page which lies before us. We can take another path, a better rut.

Particularly, I think many are holding on to the “what ifs” by carrying baggage of hurts, failures, and defeats of the past. It is hard to get to tomorrow if you are stuck in yesterday. Have you had a failure? Perhaps, someone has failed you. You are identified with the human race. Congratulations! I am so glad God used those in His Word who failed. He told us of their lives—warts and all! Though God does not condone sin, He knows that we are dust. (Psalm 103:14) Dust is not stable, and neither are we.

To move on to the future in a better way likely means forgiving—yourself and anyone else to whom you might be bound. To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and that prisoner is you.

You have 86,400 seconds today (and every day) to choose a different rut. What will the chapter written today say of your choice? Forward, march!

“Lord, lift me up and let me stand,

By faith, on Heaven’s table land.

A higher plane than I have found;

Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.”

by Beverly Hyles

From the Mondays with Beverly blog. Reprinted with permission.

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