Pointing the
finger and blaming someone else for our setbacks is easy and quite
convenient. In my case, I blamed
everyone from the doctor to God. It
should have taken a maximum of 12 weeks to heal, and I was wondering what in
the world God was waiting on. Was it
me? Was it something I should have been
doing? It’s during times like these that
all of us experience the shaking of our faith.
When the sharks begin to circle and the wolves have you surrounded, how
will you react?
My solution was to
pray and have faith... but minutes later I’d return to searching for my own
answers. This is what you call negating
your confession. After several months of
tears, questions, and utter disbelief, I began to receive God’s clear message
for me.
Early one Tuesday morning as I
stood in the bathroom washing my hands, He spoke to me. I grabbed a pen and a pad, sat down on the
cold, tile floor, and wrote down every word.
Those words eventually became the chapter content for each of the lessons
in this book. I delayed starting this
project for months, oftentimes pinning the blame on God for not doing His part
first. I knew He had the power to heal
me, He just didn’t want to.
Soon I had to face
my own reality: I was the one standing in the way. I allowed fear to outweigh my faith. Picking it up and putting it back down was
what a friend said I had been doing. It
was my greatest aha moment. My words
professed my faith, but my actions told quite a different story. What heavy weight are you holding on to
that’s preventing your recovery? What
are your actions confessing?
Sure, you can
justifiably blame those who failed to protect you, took advantage of you, or
disappointed you, but blaming won’t produce a different outcome. Forgiveness takes courage and in return it
gives you power. Forgiveness redirects the energy away from the offender and shifts it
back to you. Release the blame and reclaim your power—reclaim your life.
