How To Bounce Back

I recently saw an article that was titled, “How To Bounce Back”. The article gave several stories of people that had overcome awful circumstances.  I expected them to analyze how these people “bounced” back but it only gave those examples saying, I supposed, “they did it so you can do it too“.
That article was disappointing to me.  It didn’t deliver it’s promise.  Certainly they were great stories of perseverance and grit, but how did these people get that strength to go on?

Many people let circumstances ruin their lives.  They either take the defeat as a flaw in themselves that they can never overcome or get bitter and forever blame someone or something for ruining their lives.  They dwell in the disastrous past or ruin instead of seeing that they have plenty of life left to change things.

As Christians there is never a reason to stay in the “dung heap” of the past disaster.  In Jesus we have access to fresh new starts anytime we need them.  “2 Cor. 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. “ KJV . Jesus said, “If you can believe , all things are possible to him who believes.”  Mark 9:23

It really does come down to what you are believing.  If you are believing that the past disaster has ruined your life it will do just that.  But why do that? It ties God’s hands.  He will not override your will. Hebrews 11:6 says, But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Allow me an alternate interpretation.  He that believes in the evil disaster more than God’s new starts, his love and his healing mercy, will forfeit the rewards of new beginnings.  He will not diligently seek God because he is seeking revenge, sympathy or justification  and his doubt in recovery will stop all faith in receiving a new start.

Can I forget, forgive and go on?

You can if you believe you can. If you say in your heart, “I can never go on, never forgive” that’s where you will be stuck for the rest of your life or until you change your mind and believe in God more.

Un-forgiveness is sin.  Sin, not only against the other person but against God and yourself.  To yourself, because un-forgiveness brings on sickness and emotional difficulties To God, because as Christians are to be Godly or to walk in God’s ways. Gods way is that  he never holds a grudge.  He forgives and wipes everything offensive off the books.

True bouncing back entails leaving the past and looking to and leaning on God’s abundant supply of opportunity, love, and newness that is available to us everyday.  Switching the power over your life from the disasters to the power of God

Winona Cole

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