As I see it, just love and be aware of. Sometimes, people we know, need to become people we knew.
I was an alcoholic 40 years ago now. I had to leave that state I was in back then. I moved away and still continued in a drinking problem as well as was wanted in that state, for driving drunk, for the third time.
That was before driving drunk became a felony
I needed, seeing drinking was not beneficial to me and by God saw in me why I was the drunk I was. My sister died at age 18, on an overdose of drugs. I was 14 then. It was me not accepting this tragedy, that got me to drinking, not accept her as dead!
God from within me got me to see it, and I accepted it, my sister did die physically.
Then I saw to accept this also. She either is saved by God (As people do not see that as true) Or not saved by God.
I saw Jeremiah 29:11 and I believe God only wants what is best for each person, even though people make the wrong choices to learn from, therefore stop beating ourselves up over making the wrong choice, even if doing it again. begin new again in trusting God to show you how to say not to unrighteousness.
God, to this day has never left me or forsaken me, Yet many a times, I have felt like he has, going through troubles also as all do go through. Therefore God will not leave anyone, it can and does while in pain and troubles feel as if has and in truth has not. Therefore continue in belief (Faith) to God all in all, and one will leave the trash in the trash can and not return to that trash can
I see this:
I was living out of a trash can, getting all the scraps I can. Then a king/Queen betrothed me. I got pulled out of the trash can and got married
I see I do not care to even have another thought of those now gone days. I eat from the King/Queens table now
As you and others choose willingly to believe God too, will see and do new in trust only to God to get them through whatever it is they are going through
Any persons mind will do whatever their mind set focuses on the most
As I know this is true with me and suspect true with all people
Therefore I need, needed a new mindset, yet a new heart first Ezekiel 36:26, Micah
Micah 6:7-8
Living Bible
7 For if you offered him thousands of rams and ten thousands of rivers of olive oil—would that please him? Would he be satisfied? If you sacrificed your oldest child, would that make him glad? Then would he forgive your sins? Of course not!
8 No, he has told you what he wants, and this is all it is:
to be fair, just, merciful, and to walk humbly with your God.
Ezekiel 36:26
Living Bible
26 And I will give you a new heart—I will give you new and right desires—and put a new spirit within you. I will take out your stony hearts of sin and give you new hearts of love.[
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