What Have You Allowed In? 🤔

How quickly we tend to think, "It was everyone else's fault!"

And honestly, sometimes that's true. But recently, as I opened my A Prayer for Every Day devotional one morning, I read this prayer:

"I also want to ask for Your forgiveness for the things I have allowed into my life, even though they are not Your will."

Those words made me stop and think: What have I allowed into my life that doesn't reflect God's will? What have I let in?

Maybe it wasn't yesterday. Maybe it happened years ago.

Is there a friendship that's pulling me away from God? Did I go through a difficult season years ago when I adopted the attitude, "I just don't care anymore"—and even though life has improved, I've never let go of that mindset?

As I reflected on those questions, I realized something: God isn't bringing these things to light to accuse us.

He's doing it to set us free.

Never forget: God is love. ❤️

Often, it's the very things we've allowed into our lives that weigh down our hearts, shape our thoughts, and quietly pull us away from Him.

But here's the good news: You don't have to stay the way you are.

What we've allowed in doesn't have to remain.

"But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all wickedness." (1 John 1:9) 

That makes me want to shout, "Hallelujah!"

Maybe God is revealing something to you right now. If He is, remember this: He loves you. And that's exactly why He wants to set you free.

So the question isn't, "Whose fault was it?"

The question is: "What needs to leave today so God has room to do something new in my life?"

You are a miracle!