What if

Here we are a mere few hours until a new year begins. We stand at the door, that is getting ready to open and soon all of us will walk through it. Some will cross that threshold, anticipating the future and all that it has to hold. There will be those who will drag with them all the baggage of the last year and probably of many other years.
Tucked in the recesses of their mind is the one looming question "What if". What if my wife/husband hadn't left me. What if I didn't have this disease. What if I had gone to University/college when I had the chance. What if I had made better choices. What if I had grown up in a better home. What if I was treated better and the list goes on and on. So many what ifs. Unfortunately many of these people harbor their own sense of regret and resentments about the What if s in their lives. They live their lives in bitterness and anger never willing to let the What ifs in their lives go. As each year passes there is less joy, less happiness and misery has come to consume every fiber of their being. Their treatment of friends, family and people in general becomes hostile as they want those around them to feel as miserable as they do. Being around them is like a dark cloud that sucks any light and soul of those who come within their sphere. So much pain and hurt.No forgiveness.
Well if you happen to one of those people that are living with What ifs and have had enough of the misery that goes along with out moving on, I have some good news for you. There is healing.
There is a God in heaven who has sent his only son (Jesus) to this earth to bring healing. He came so that we could live life to the abundant. To live a life free of the pain of the past. He wants us to be free of the chains that are holding us in the past. Wanting Joy to be in your life. He invites us to come to him to cast all our cares on him because he cares for us. He wants to forgive you so you can know forgiveness and give forgiveness. He wants you to have Joy so you can leave that bitterness and anger behind, he wants to transform you into a totally new person. It is after all by his stripes we are healed he did it for you.
One of the worst What Ifs that I can think of that a person could ever have regret about and never be able to change is Standing before God and not ever having accepted his son into your life and have him turn you away and ending up in hell. Then asking yourself the question What if I had accepted Jesus into my life.
So while you are still here, still alive get healing for your what ifs, Allow Jesus into your life for healing, for forgiveness allow him to free you from the pain of the past and the future. He loves you. Come and be set free.
Enter through that door of the new year a new person changed by Gods amazing love for you. Letting the door shut on all those What ifs that you have lived with for so long.

God Bless you in the year 2011 and may it be the sweetest you have experienced as you start your new walk with God.
Yours
DCW