MY SURGERY

It’s been the best of times…but not all the time!!! Now I find myself at a crossroad, a very good place in my life I think, a place I’ve never been before in all my almost 25 years of marriage. It’s a life examing place, and yeah, I’m the SUBJECT, I am the CLIENT, yes I am the PATIENT. I’ve finally realized that my life is indeed my life, I’ve wasted many years trying to fit into others lives, to be a part…when many of those people never wanted me in their lives. How sad, poor me, should have known better….oh well…that time is over forever.

Now I press on, working on me, my surgery…I’m in the operating room and it’s really me alone. Yes, family and friends have their place, but when the lights go out, and all the clowns go home, it’s just me. So now I concentrate on me…for a change. And yes, it’s never too late for a change for the better.

Surgery is difficult, but necessary, if life is to be worth anything!
I’m being transformed through trouble, and there has been much trouble, but the surgery will help set things in order, each in it’s proper place.

The first rule in the surgery process is “it’s all between your ears”. The surgery must first began in your mind, your thinking will have to change. We go the way our minds don’t we? The answer is yes. The Bible says “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” We must believe everything God says about us, and defy everything else! When a thought comes in your mind, check it…is it according to God’s word? If not, dismiss it and send it back where it came!

Knowing that God loves you will help the surgery process, and loving yourself is a must. Know that He’s thinking of you and have your best interest in mind. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil to give you an expected end.” God wants to give us a future and a hope.

How well the surgery goes will depend mightily on our perception of ourselves, do you love yourself, do you like yourself? Learn to love yourself, no love for others until you love you.

Another critical component is forgetting and moving on. Yes some things must be dealt with and forgotten, nothing positive will happen before that! Paul talking to the saints in Philippi says “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14.

There may have been many mistakes made, many failings, many going around the same dumb mountain…but today is a new day…march forward. Forgive yourself and others and go on. Make restitution were possible and move on.

Joseph taught us this principle a long time ago. Notice what he says in Genesis 41:50-52 as he names his two sons. “And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. 51)And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, Saith he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house. 52) And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”There will be no FRUITFULNESS before FORGETTING. Joseph learned that and it’s still true today.

You may have a lot of work to do, or just a bit of critiquing; doesn’t matter, the process is the same. Forget it and let it go, ask God to forgive you and receive it and move on.

These are a few of the points of recovery as we perform surgery on ourselves, not on others(that’s their job).

I keep in mind that I am the patient, I’m the one who chooses to change, it’s not about others, I’m in the prep room all alone. It’s about me, and I’m ready for change. We will look at some strageties to change next time….Let the change began!!!