Think On The Right Things That You May Go Forward

I am definitely a believer in continuous self-assessment and I believe that the bible admonishes us to do that so that we can make appropriate corrections and then move forward. So, to my mind, self- examination is a good thing especially when God in His mercy gets involved and helps one see truly who they are. You can argue with other people but when you see for yourself how bad or good you are, then there’s no one to argue with. The Holy Spirit will be sure to show you exactly how God views the real you that no one may know. He will reveal to you your true motives and thoughts of your heart. The problem then becomes what you do with the information God reveals to you about yourself bearing in mind that information by itself is useless; it only becomes useful and valuable when you put it to good use. Until then, it only has the potentials to be valuable.

1 Corinthians 11: 28a “But let a man examine himself.’

The reason God gets involved in this self-assessment or examination is for us to make appropriate corrections that will help us go forward. It is neither to get trapped in the past nor is it to keep you on that spot so that you are neither going forward or backward. God in revealing the things to you is actually working to make you go forward. We must learn to deal with the things that need to be dealt with, put them behind us and focus on the goal that is set before us. We must learn to put behind us the things that need to be put behind us. Some of us have developed insecurities from past situations; refusing to deal with them and move on, we have remained in one spot: always and only seeing life mostly through those situations, wrongly judging almost everything therefore, and making the wrong decisions. This is so terrible because you end up never accurately discerning any situation and frustrating people. For every such person, it is time to move on. Focusing on these mistakes cannot take you forward. God let you see them so you can deal with them, move on and not make them anymore.

Isaiah 50: 7 “Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will. And I know that I will not be put to shame.”

Sometimes we spend too much time focusing on the things that are wrong in our lives leaving ourselves very little time to build on the good ones. Interestingly, you will only make more mistakes by focusing on those wrong things. If we focus on the good ones, building on them and asking God for grace to actualize them, we would go forward. We can’t afford to let our lives rotate around those bad ones. We have to push our minds to focus on the good things so that we can bear the right fruits. One does not become a saint by remaining in perpetual sorrow for wrong done. You become a saint because your sorrow has worked repentance. Thereafter, you are to focus on the abundant life that is yours by reason of you becoming a saint. Please let us think on the right things that we may live right and go forward. 

Philippians 4: 8 “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”