I had the stunning realization the other day…
I am no longer Megan Elizabeth Good! I know that may sound crazy, I’ve been married now for almost 6 months and it truly has just started to hit me that I am no longer Megan Good, I am now Megan Gravener. This little thing really hit me the other day when I started reading through my old journals and all the drama of my teenaged life and things that I was going through when I made the choice to walk away from God.
You see only a very short time ago I was really looking out to just live the way I wanted to live my life. I believed in God, and I knew He was there “with me” but I really didn’t care too much about my Spiritual well being or what God was really asking of me. Long story short, many things really fell apart in my life, you want to talk about the laws of attraction, it was in action for me BIG TIME, and I did not like it!
Not long before Sean and I decided we were going to get married, life really started to change. Both Sean and my heart’s were touched and softened by God’s Holy Spirit and He grabbed us on new levels of awareness. “What were we doing!?!?” Life started turning around, and it was a process! (But I have to say now, I couldn’t be happier!) There were things that I was asking forgiveness for, and still find myself doing, I’m not perfect, and I do sin everyday, though I am making conscious choices to choose God over myself and change my ways for blessings. There were still things that got to me, I had people say already “that’s what you always do Megan”, or “yeah, you’ve said that before”. Whatever those outside voices were telling me if it be I was attacking myself with them or an old friend was bringing it up…it really got me down. I would get scared, oh yeah, I did say that before…but you know what I learned?
2 Corinthians 5:17″Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.”
That has all passed away, it is no longer. It is the choices I am making right now, the thoughts that I choose now to be new, the faith that I choose now is all new! I am in Christ and I can say “thanks for reminding me what I was, but I am not that any longer! I am all new in Christ”
This verse got to me as I began confessing and basically forgiving myself for what God had already forgiven me for!
These are a few ways to start looking at your life now…to see where you were, and see now that you can be completely made whole and brand new in Christ. He doesn’t want you to stay in the rut and repeating the cycle, He wants you to have success and break away.
Just like I had that realization the one day that I was now Megan Gravener, that the old ways of Megan Good no longer exist. You can have those same moments by simply turning into Christ. Changing your thought pattern, choosing God’s forgiveness and become a new person yourself…not just with a new name, like my little story, but with your renewed Spirit and Mind!