29 Mar From Here (How to turn your Setback into a Comeback) part 17

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Before I gave my life to Jesus I was quite the wild child!  During this period of time, I had a roommate named Barry.  Most of what Barry and I did together was illegal, immoral and fattening!  After I got radically saved and turned my life over to Jesus, I shared the good news of the Gospel with Barry repeatedly.  Barry just did not want to hear it at the time.  For years Barry would regularly come around and all he ever wanted to talk about was all the immoral things we did together.  I would continually remind him that I was now a Christian…a new creation in Christ Jesus.  That was no longer a part of my lifestyle.  Barry could never seem to understand this.  He always wanted to live his life from there.  I was determined to live my life…from here!

Over the last few months, we shared with you our key Scripture from I Thessalonians 5:16, “Rejoice evermore.”  In this short but powerful verse, we discovered the Greek word translated “evermore” literally means “from this point on”.  In everyday language, it means “from here”.  Then we began to share with you “13 Facets to Live a Constructive Life”:

  1. Part from Pity (Phil. 2:14).  
  2. Never let your tragedy become your identity (Mark 5:26). 
  3. You can’t unscramble eggs (Eph. 5:16).
  4. What we know is always more important than how we feel (Eph. 6:13-14).
  5. Never let go of what you do know because of what you don’t know (Matt. 11:5-6).
  6. Never compound bad decisions with more bad decisions (Rom. 6:19).  
  7. Life is not about “What ifs” but “What now?”  (II Sam. 12:18-24).

Join us next week when we share #8 of the “13 Facets to Live a Constructive Life” helping us go “from here”.