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If I Chose the Wrong
Door I Missed Gods Will for My Life
Now, I’ll just have to settle for second best. People who don’t like the outcome of one decision obsess over what might have happened if they had chosen differently. Like person who comes to believe he should have made a different career choice and lives with a chronic sense of guilt. A woman believes she married the wrong man and fantasizes over an imaginary marriage to the man she now decides was Plan A.
Now, I’ll just have to settle for second best. People who don’t like the outcome of one decision obsess over what might have happened if they had chosen differently. Like person who comes to believe he should have made a different career choice and lives with a chronic sense of guilt. A woman believes she married the wrong man and fantasizes over an imaginary marriage to the man she now decides was Plan A.
It seems that many of us tend to think more often in a
negative direction than a positive one. We think disproportionately about the
outcomes that disappoint us and not the ones that filled us with gratitude that
we could have missed out on.
As author John Ortberg says,“The Apostle Paul makes a great distinction. He says there is a godly
sorrow that brings repentance and a worldly that brings death. (2 Corinthians 7:10)
The right kind of sorrow over a bad
decision creates energy rather than despair. It helps us to learn from past mistakes
and grow into wisdom. Worldly sorrow is depleting. In worldly sorrow we look at
our bad choices as though the world rather than God is our only hope.”
God’s will for my life is centered mainly in who he wants me to become.
God Could Never Understand My Frustration about Closed Doors
One of the most famous pictures of a door in the history was by the artist William Holman Holt. It
God’s will for my life is centered mainly in who he wants me to become.
God Could Never Understand My Frustration about Closed Doors
One of the most famous pictures of a door in the history was by the artist William Holman Holt. It
Imagine if you stood outside someone’s home knocking on the
door, not knowing whether you will be allowed in. God has given to every person
the door to their own heart, and God himself will not force his way in.
No person has
ever faced the pain of rejection as much as God has. God is not just the
one who opens doors; he is the one who stands knocking at closed doors. He is
the most rejected person in the history of the world. If he is willing to stand
at the door of my heart and knock, who am I to give up?
Some Doors Are So Closed
That God Can’t Do Anything About It
Locked door are God’s specialty. If God can open the heavy door of a sealed tomb, no door is closed to Him. Consider after the resurrection the doors of the house the disciples were locked, but Jesus appeared to them. Later, doors were shut were his followers were he showed up and said, “Peace be with you.”
Locked door are God’s specialty. If God can open the heavy door of a sealed tomb, no door is closed to Him. Consider after the resurrection the doors of the house the disciples were locked, but Jesus appeared to them. Later, doors were shut were his followers were he showed up and said, “Peace be with you.”
The doors of our
lives are not closed to God. Know that he can enter our everyday stuff with
his presence and peace and show us that his power can change our perspective even
when things look grim. Open doors are
new every morning.
