I am not that person

Nope I am not that person.  I am not a lot of things.  I wish I could be better at some things than what I am. I wish I would do this or I wish i would to that. 

We have all said that to ourselves at one point or another.  I know I have and other that I don't want to admit.  I compare my self to other people.

All the while I have been wrapped up in my past.  In how I was not treated fairly in this, or I wasn't loved in this way.  Really the list could go on and on.  I don't want to name specifics for a reason and I will get to the reason in a minute. 

I am stopping!  I am not looking back any more, because I don't want to turn into something that I am not suppose to be.  I don't want to be bitter or angry (any more).

But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt Gen. 19:26

Here is this story we have Lot's wife who looks back and the city they just left.  God specifically told them not to look back.  God had saved them from a very sinful city.

In that same manner, God has saved us from a very sinful past.  He is doing a new work in us.

18 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

~Isaiah 43:18-19

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.

~2 Corinthians 5:17

You are a new creation!  The old person has gone.  Don't look back to it.  Remember where God as brought you from.  Don't keep looking back.  You aren't that person any more!

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.~Psalm 139:14

God made you! You are the person you are suppose to be. He great you for a specific purpose.  It is not the same purpose as those around you.  We all have different gifts.  We are all going to do them differently.  Don't compare yourself to others.  You aren't that person.

So what I am learning through all of this is be my self.  Be the person God created me to be.  He loves me and you! It is beautiful that we are all different.

He is still working and pruning on all of us!