Do you feel good about yourself?

Complete the sentence: “If only … I would be happy and content.” What is it that you are missing and that, if you had, would make you feel better about yourself? Take some time to give an answer to that question before you continue reading. 

Regardless of what you're lacking, possessing it wouldn't lead to happiness or self-contentment. Rather than viewing frustration as an absence of something important in your life, take it as a chance to cope with its loss and let God create something new and valuable within you. Frustration has a potential of adjusting the old memories in your heart to a new standard. Big pains have a potential of becoming big pearls. You can embrace value of healing and a new life instead of harboring pain and confusion.

In order to embark a new inner healing process, you can invite the Holy Spirit to enter your heart, where painful or sinful memories are kept, and assist you in addressing them. Request His help in exploring the graveyard of past memories that emerge when negative emotions are triggered. Ask for resurrection power and for Jesus to breathe new life into your old memories. 

During this journey, you may permit your heart to mourn, forgive, and release whatever is holding you back in a stagnant routine. There might be unfulfilled desires and unresolved disappointments that are awaiting fulfillment in a new encounter with Jesus. 

“Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” - John 11:41-44