"Quit Picking at Your Scabs"

I just went to the dermatologist last week for my bi-annual punishment for loving the outdoors so much.  

I had some pre-cancer spots frozen to prevent them from becoming malignant. I’m used to this process and the healing usually takes about a week and once the scab falls off, I’m good to go.

This time I had to have one zapped on my scalp. It was pretty big so they had to freeze a bigger area. It wasn’t fun. It’s at scab stage now and I keep catching myself picking at it. Sorry.. if I’m too real.

God said to me this morning, stop picking at your scabs.

I realized God was not only talking to me about my dermatology, He was instructing me in this teaching.

I have been talking to God about relationships a lot lately.

I feel like friendships struggle, marriages fail, and even church attendance declines because people can’t stop picking at their offense scabs. We say we forgive, but then we drag back up old hurts the next time we feel offended. We say it’s under the blood of Jesus but; we love to listen more to what Pintrest diagnoses and encourages us in for relationships than what The Bible has to say about them.

We simply drag up the past over and over like picking at scabs God is trying to heal.

Do we really want healing?

Do we really want peace in our relationships? Do we really want the blessed life God wants for us?

Then, we need to stop picking at old scabs and move on.

We need to forget the past and press on!

We need to stay in today. That takes humility. That takes work. That takes spiritual maturity.

But… that’s how we heal.

Will there be scars? Yup!

But.. I’ve heard it said, scars build character.

Today, I want to encourage you to forget the former things and do not dwell on the past. God’s grace is in today! Stop picking at your scabs.

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