If Only..

Sounds familiar? Well I certainly have a lot of ‘If Only(s)’. If only I have done this…if only I have not done that…if only I have not made that decision…

The highlight of our ‘If Only(s)’ is our past. When we say ‘If Only’, we are referring to our past.

In Genesis 3:17, God cursed the ground after Adam first sinned. Since then mankind has to work the ground in order to produce food.

John 9 tells us a story about Jesus healing a man who was born blind. Blind since birth!. In this famous passage, Jesus spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva before putting it on the blind man’s eyes. The blind man could see soon after, for the first time in his life.

Sometimes we allow things to blind us from what God wants to do in our life; most of the time they are things from our past. The Devil likes to remind us of our past because there is nothing we can change about our past (true?). Then we start to say ‘If Only..’

In the passages above we find that though God has cursed the ground in the beginning, He has sent Jesus with a purpose of redemption. The ground symbolizes things that He wants to restore in our lives. The ground which was once cursed was used by Jesus to restore a man’s sight! Think about that.

Do you have anything in your past that you want to set free? We might not be able to change our past, but God can change the course of our future by not allowing our past to hold us down. God can turn your painful past around and do something great in your future, just like Jesus did with the blind man.

This post is inspired by Ps Matt Heins, Pastor of Paradise Community Church :) You rock Pastor Matt!