Yesterday, I had to finish out the lengthy devotional from Pastor Chappell, so I missed one of the National Calendar Days for March 9th. Get over it! I’m not being rude. It’s just a little humor to tell you that yesterday was National Get Over It Day. Jeff Goldblatt created this day in 2005 – 21 years ago – because he was having trouble getting over an ex-girlfriend. The Atlanta-based entrepreneur decided enough was enough. Knowing that others have similar moments, he created the day for people hanging on to and moping over hurts, disappointments, embarrassments, and failures to …
Get over it!
Some folks will daily replay in their minds an unkind, ugly word spoken to them decades ago.
Get over it!
Others will relive the disappointments of not making the team or being axed from the team.
Get over it!
There are those that will constantly count all the ex-friends from the past who wronged them, betrayed trusts, lied about them, and broke their hearts.
Get over it!
Some will remember the failures, adding them up and surmising that their life is nothing but failure.
Get over it!
I know that those words seem cold and harsh. I’m not talking about things that happened yesterday where the wound is new and fresh and have to be processed. The hurts I’m addressing are those that have been harbored for years, even decades.
Do a bit of research into two families who couldn’t get over it: the Hatfields and McCoys. Their feud went on from 1863-1891. The cause of the feud was over the American Civil War, land disputes, and revenge killings. The result was that more than a dozen were killed
on each side of the families and nine Hatfields imprisoned, including seven imprisoned for life and one executed. Somebody needed to…
Get over it!
The Israelites had problems getting over it. Their whine constantly sounded like Numbers 11:4-6. “And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? (5) We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: (6) But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.” I wonder if any of the Jewish people read this today with embarrassment over their ancestors. The fact that they couldn’t get over it led to their downfall.
Some folks pine for the “good old days.” Ecclesiastes 7:10 instructs, “Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.” It is unwise to live in the past, believing those days were so much better than the days we are living in right now. Those days of old are gone.
Get over it!
My friend, living in the past with its hurts and regrets is an awful place to live. It’s discouraging, depressing, and distracting from what God is wanting to do right now. We’ve ALL had hurts and disappointments. We’ve ALL been done wrong by someone who called us their friend. We’ve ALL been disillusioned by people that we really thought had it all together. And I know from experience that some of those wounds are deep. I get that but I also understand that it’s time to get over it and move on.
There are great things ahead, just waiting for us to live in the present and embrace them. And, our future is certainly bright considering that the Lord is already paving the way. Let’s Paul’s words in Philippians 3:13-14 encourage you. “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, (14) I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
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