AC-BC

Hello guys, before I get to today's post, please accept my deepest apologies for not sharing life moments with you in the past month. 

I am learning that if I choose to wait for the perfect moment or setting to get important things done, I will never get around to doing anything. 

I am a work in progress and I recall something Pastor Benji said some years ago: we don't have to start afresh; we continue from where we left off. 

So here I am, continuing from where I left off, and hoping you can forgive me too... 

So today's AC-BC post, here we go... 

This morning, something interesting happened in the bathroom. 
I was reflecting on something I had done when I was in secondary school. 
I remembered how some seniors and even classmates would hear my name and say, "that girl" or something unpleasant about me. 

The moment the thought crossed my mind, the question that sprung up in my heart was, "Was that before I knew Christ or after I met Christ?" In other words, BC-AC.  

You see, the devil is funny. 
he has a way of keeping us locked in our past by condemnation. 
So you made some bad choices in the past... and so what? 
Regardless, you made the greatest decision, which is giving your life to Jesus. 

And because you are in Christ, you are a new creation. 
Old things are gone and all things have become new. 
There is no condemnation for you in Christ Jesus. facts only. 

Like the famous Sammy once said, "The past is not the present" anymore. 
All things have become new. 

Believe me, even now, I make mistakes. 
I do things and I ask myself, "Oh, why did you do this?" 
I question my actions too. 
But one thing I do, by the Grace of God, is to remind myself of ABBA's word which tells me I am His righteousness, I am loved, I am not condemned and once I confess, my sins are wiped away and ABBA remembers them no more. My nature is different.

Friend, do not let the devil keep you locked in his trap. 
There is no truth in him, for real. 

My quiet time today was from Colossians 3:9 which admonishes us not to lie because we have stripped ourselves off our old nature and its practices. 
This is a consciousness we must constantly keep: the daily reminder that we are not the same people we were before we encountered Christ and even though we are now in Him, no matter the mistake we make, we are still not the same people we were before we encountered Christ. 

And that, my friend, is the absolute truth.

God bless you.