We all go through memories in the library of the mind and the quick snapshots of photos taken back to remind us of days gone by and all that had lasting effects.
For some it is gut-wrenching pain, for others it’s just another snapshot to keep them hammering the nails into the coffin they are building.
How can you be forgiven if you will not forgive? There is nothing left for you!
“Then his master, having called him, says to him, ‘Evil servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Did it not behoove you also to have pitied your fellow servant, as I also had pitied you?’ And having been angry, his master delivered him to the jailers, until that he should pay all being owed to him Thus also My Heavenly Father will do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from your heart.” Matthew 18:32-34.
You are building a casket made with every word and action you speak and do.
You hold that hammer, and you keep building that coffin with the root of pride, bitterness, hatred, malice, cares of this life, the love of money and all that it buys, nothing no nothing fulfills you!
You think you are so right that you have elevated yourself to the same status as God, who knows all good and evil! You think you have joined with God to gossip, slander, curse, while doing so you are releasing a hail of all sorts of arrows, but what you don’t realize is the more you say, the coffin gets deeper, and it is almost closed just waiting for the author of the words….
For with each nail, and every word has prepared for death. If we don’t repent, what we build with our words will shroud us and encase us in the coffin of our own words and actions.
The deepest roots of pride and bitterness doesn’t only destroy you, but the root of bitterness defiles many and those who hear it over and over, you are building it into those others you like or love, and you are there and there is no immunity for what you carry, no shot to take.
You defile them, and they catch your words, and they are now infected.
Nothing will satisfy ultimately, and idolatry is alive and well in this ME, MYSELF, AND I generation.
The more dissatisfied you become the more desperate you try to find something to point at or you twist the language to make it mean something that it is not.
Your case against this person’s life became a judgement over the same case from many years ago!
You have been spiritually stuck and the more you fight and fit and try to find substance to play with toys but you cannot find relief!
You are bored, so you must find something else wrong with this person. Or another person! Perfection in this life?
Oh, mistakes are made over and events that had Satan laughing with glee cause he knows he’s got you!
You do not realize you are the person this speaks of for you prophesied your own case and nothing ever changes, you have all the time you want and every toy and everything money can buy but yet you’re miserable! Oh, how a little fire kindled!
You take upon yourself to instill fear of your absolute power and control, manipulation, and you are the true essence of a true male Jezebel, and you seek to intimidate those who are afraid of you!
I tell you this day I will speak and yes you shall hear me! And YES, I AM able to debase!
You are just like my adversary that I cast out of heaven with a third of the angels in rebellion and idolatry. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as idolatry (1 Samuel 13:23).
“The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.” So He told them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.…” Luke 10:18-19.
So, you use your tongue as a weapon and oh what a little member in our body but boy what a fire it kindles!
A person who is consumed with bringing another person down, is assumed as a judge, jury, but no advocate but themselves.
Because of every scheme, conspiracy, every plot, plan you blatantly speak and every word, action, every curse you speak about the snapshot of this person’s life, you have judged forever what that person did in one snapshot of a photograph.
It stirs your demonized mind to think of how you will present this person in the casket of wood, hay, and stubble.
It is a dangerous place to be when we take a snapshot of a person and for the rest of their life and you consider them null and void and shouldn’t live!
You are guilty of judging another man’s servant? YES, God’s servant!
You measure everything by what happened many years ago and that person has moved on and started their life over with a NEW BEGINNING! And you are left behind!
In God’s eyes they are loved and living the life given to them by God with all they are and all they have! For when you have been forgiven of much you love much!
Did you know that when we earnestly pray for those that are jealous and hate us and wish for our death and if we refuse to forgive them, it isn’t on them… IT IS ON US!!!
Do you realize that if you hate and hold unforgiveness and will not forgive do you think your opinion is the only one that counts, you are highly mistaken.
God sits on His throne, and He is the only righteous judge that has the power to give life. And you are on borrowed time, tomorrow may never happen.
We cannot go back through the pictures and they are so vivid. Going through life with its ups and downs can make for a very curvy and untimely route.
However, it is much better to go through than to camp out in the spot of offense that breeds conflict of hatred held for a very long time.
If we think we will advance in God with a spirit of offense, hate, bitterness, jealousy, malice, pride, we have departed from the will of The LORD.
A snapshot in time of what we call happiness has segments missing that can only bring pain to the heart.
God knew the root of everything, why things were passed down. He knew why the thief was able to steal your most precious memories
. I thank God that I survived to see this day though I made some bad decisions and I thank God he knew the reasons and why.
Beloved, God knows why we had to go through such hard things in our lives. Why? Because just like Joseph was carried away from his family sold to the Egyptians by all his jealous brothers, it wasn’t the end of the story.
The original plan was to murder their brother but the eldest said NO, let us sell him. Can you imagine how deceitful the lies the brothers came to their father to break his heart!
They willingly wanted his memory of Joseph to be dead and gone!
Jealousy is a wicked spirit, and the bible says it’s as cruel as a grave! Jealousy leads to death, and it is good to catch it now and truly repent from your sin!
SOS 6:8 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame.
So, Joseph’s brothers conspired, and they were jealous, full of hate, murder in their heart but God had a plan!
Even after they took his coat of many colors and sold him, they conjured up a lie to be kept within the brothers.
For their father to believe, they had to lie and make it look real, so they dipped it in the blood of an animal to take to his father’s house and it broke his father’s heart when he was told Joseph was dead. Giving him the coat dipped in blood.
I sense there are many now that are reading this, and you have been in limbo for a long time.
I thank God for what I have, and I cherish all the days and segments I have been given, and I hope to experience much more now.
If you have lost much time with those you really love, God can redeem the time. Ephesians 5:16 says, “redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
But not all snapshots in the lives of God’s children are often happy. God has given us allotted space of time but also given us our free will and choice.
I thank The LORD though I missed some very precious time, I am thankful of what time I did have, and I appreciate it so much more.
Life is short, why hang on to petty, childish, jealousy behaviors? Why do we hold on to things that bear no lasting value and only seek to bring division and hurt. The Bible says that wherever there is strife and contention there is every evil work.
“For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.” James 3:16.
“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.…” Proverbs 16:18-19.
In closing, God used a special son with a coat of many colors to speak out the visions and his ministry was responded to with jealousy, hatred and ultimately the desire of murder.
Yet everything that Joseph went through prepared him to rule and reign over Egypt only second to Pharaoh.
God indeed turned it all around for His good.
When his family came, he wept openly as he said what God wanted is here. Joseph forgave all of them and there was restoration of his entire family.
In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey
New Beginning Christian Ministries International 