Overcome

Have you noticed how holidays tend to magnify things? Good times are better, and bad times are worse. Unfortunately, hurtful feelings from the past can also pop up and be magnified – feelings over incidents or relationships that you may have wished never happened. Feelings of being offended. Feelings of shame. Feelings of being labeled by past or even present events. To truly live in Christ as a new creation, these are all feelings we must overcome.

To do this, we must not allow these feelings to define or control us. Instead, we need to focus on who Jesus is, what He has done for us, and how He has labeled us. Let’s throw off the old, welcome the new, and help others struggling with the same feelings.