A clean slate should not be confused with totally eliminating the careless choices that impacted your body, mind, and spirit, including your relationships. God’s grace and mercy grant peace and the courage to prevent the past from dominating what God makes new for you.
The idea of showing mercy to oneself may seem impossible, but it deserves consideration. Think of it as refusing to ruminate on the past. Self-mercy includes forgiveness, turning over to God what transpired in the past that sometimes has seemed beyond resolving.
Personally extending mercy to oneself involves sincere repentance or turning from a lifestyle of self-indulgence or self-incrimination.
Self-mercy permits God’s grace to establish a new mindset you live by each day that God will bless. Self-mercy acknowledges self-discipline that may be painful while God is at work to set you on a new path that’s filled with hope and his plan for your future. So praise God!
I
am convinced and
confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will
[continue to] perfect and complete it until the day of Christ Jesus [the
time of his return].
~Philippians
1:6 Amplified Bible
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