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What's next Papa ?


Many a time we loose focus from the real thing of life, captivated in a prison cell of our own work, with a diminished view, seeing and believing the lies we told ourselves, being obsessed in believing that we have no hope or solution to the situation we are in. This feeling cribs growth and leads us to believe in mediocre gains. In such a condition we see our past glory and count them as "the time of our life" and our past failures which may or may not have led us to the situation we are in as "the opportunities i missed". 

We fail to see that there is a deeper meaning and a more deeper purpose in we being in the situation we are in. Now you may call this as a phase in life but doesn't such phase repeat it self, each time scaring the wound it caused the last time we went through such a phase? Paul, the author of 13 letters that influenced Bible, felt this same. But this thought did not hinder him from the work he set to do.


Paul says in the letter to the people in Rome, that there was once a man who was captivated in guilt and past, and he, when he accepted Christ, Paul believes that he was given a new chance, a new life, to experience, a new life to live ...


So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go! This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!(The Message)

How cool can it be? Paul is so frank! He says go ahead, bury the old life and walk anew. As simple as that. We have no obligation what so ever to look at the past, no obligation to the works we did in the past, to the works we failed to do, no strings attached to the past, so that we may walk tall, without the fear that the skeletons of past failures would hold us back. Looking at God, like a son or daughter of 10 looks at his or her dad after the roller coaster and says, "Great dad, it was cool, What's next papa? , What shall we do next?"
Life is simple, lets get it uncomplicated!



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Anonymous said…
yes let us not make it more complicated by our ego,envy,selfishness etc.

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