So the past few days I’ve found myself meditating on things of my past. Of course, when we do this, we never think about the good. It’s seems like it’s almost human nature to rehearse the pain, failures, hurts or regrets.
After feeling this way for a few days (and feeling this way for more than a day is way too long), I woke up this morning and asked God to help me let it all go.
I proceeded to my normal, morning routine of working out while listening to something that will empower my spirit. I turned on my television to hear spiritual leader, Joel Osteen, talking about dropping it, leaving it and letting it go. I immediately knew this was God answering my prayer. It was only five minutes into it that I decided to drop it, leave it and let it go.
What do I mean by this?
Well, you can’t expect to effectively move forward to receive the best that your future has to offer you if you’re still holding onto the pain, regrets, betrayals or failures of your past. If you’re still mad at that ex-boyfriend who cheated, or you’re still regretting a mistake you made, or you’re still harboring the pain of your parents divorce or you can’t get over the failed business. Then it’s time to drop it, leave it and let it go.
You are holding onto way too many bags that you were not designed to carry. You’re holding onto to a dusty backpack when God wants to put a new Chanel in your hands.
During the broadcast, Joel Osteen said something that I’ve had to say to myself a hundred times. “If God allowed it, then it must have a purpose in the end.” I understand that there are certain disappointments that are so painful that there is no way you can understand why that would happen to you. Unfortunately, we love in a fallen world where bad things happen to good people and trying to understand why will only frustrate you and delay your healing.
Any person who has experienced disappointment, hurt or failure but who resiliently thrives over the obstacle makes a conscious decision to let it go and move forward. As a woman of faith, I’ve learned to trust God to heal me, vindicate me and give me back double for all the troubles I’ve suffered. I’ve learned to maximize God’s love for me instead of focusing on the past. Why not try doing the same?
You will become what you behold. Therefore, if you keep looking behind you then you’re allowing your past to hold your future captive. All things can be made new in your life. You may be mad at the ex of yours but just around the bend is your husband who will treat like the Queen that you are but if you keep harboring that pain, you are limiting what God can do in your future because you may end up sabotaging it. You may be pissed off at your former boss who unjustly fired you out of the blue and you endured extreme financial struggles but the job of your dreams making 5x as much as you did before is on its way. Your first business may have failed but there is a new, multi million dollar deal for a new business coming that will help you and your family achieve prosperity for generations to come.
The reason you have to “leave it” is because once you drop it, you’ll be tempted to pick it back up. Make a decision not to pick it back up. Stop talking about it (unless you need to seek professional help), stop rehearsing it, stop hanging out with the people who reinforce it, and leave it where it belongs, in your past.
Accept your past as part of your story and trust that those trials will turn into triumphs! Everything that happened to you is happening for you in order to fulfill your life’s assignment.
Write out the vision that you have for your future and surround yourself with images that represent where you want to go, not where you been. Create a new vision board representing the new things that you are expecting to have manifested in your life. Grab hold in faith of every promise that God has made over your life! This is not your end, this is very beginning if you will drop it, leave it and let it go.
XOXO,
Maria I. Melendez
@embraceherlegacy