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11/9/14
A Dividing Wall.......Monday
What is the worst traffic you have ever been in? Behind an accident when the emergency crew closed all lanes of traffic? Racing through bad weather in order to get home and avoid even worse? Well, 25 years ago this week thousands of Germans sat in huge traffic jams to cross the newly opened border while guards stood back allowing them to come and go. The celebrations surrounding the opening of the borders and the fall of the Berlin Wall were ongoing. A city and a country were no longer to be divided; the people were free to visit family and friends, seek employment, and purchase goods. Their present and their future lives were changed. For 37 years the Germans had lived with a closed border of concrete and barbed wire. But how many of us create our own borders: walled in by fear, regret, disappointment, or resentment? I have met people so trapped by something that happened (or didn't happen) that 20 years later it is still their primary focus and everything they discuss comes back to it. I do not want to miss out on the present, or the future, God has for me- because I won't forgive myself, or someone else, or even God, for the past.
Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander,
as well as all types of evil behavior.
Instead, be kind to each other,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:31-32 NLT
Dear Lord, thank You for all of the plans You have for us. For providing a vision of Your love to hold on to when we go through difficult times and challenges. Please search our hearts, and show each of us, any area where we are building walls where they shouldn't be. In Jesus name, amen.
I love it when a devotional writer takes a current event and points out spiritual truth she gleans from "between the lines." It has been twenty five years since the Berlin Wall fell. Sometimes we do not need a wall to hold us in a place where we do not want to be. As the scripture said there are things we need to get rid of and try to be kind hearted to one another. Let's give it a try.
I love it when a devotional writer takes a current event and points out spiritual truth she gleans from "between the lines." It has been twenty five years since the Berlin Wall fell. Sometimes we do not need a wall to hold us in a place where we do not want to be. As the scripture said there are things we need to get rid of and try to be kind hearted to one another. Let's give it a try.
ReplyDeleteGod bless...