Saying Goodbye

Psalms 126:5 Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.

So many tears, so many nights spent with a heavy heart and even after time has past its still hard to say goodbye.  A writer wrote a song years back, "its so hard to say goodbye to yesterday" The lyrics to that song are:

How do I say goodbye to what we had?
The goodtimes that made us laugh
outweigh the bad

I thought we'd get to see forever
but forever's gone away
it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday

I brought that song up to remind us of a particular part in this song.  The line that reads "the goodtimes that made us laugh".  The reason for that is that we sometimes forget when its time to say goodbye the reasons why we leave and tend to focus on the things that made us stay.  The things that made us leave although may be fewer than the goodtimes, they are more significant.  The hurt and feelings of rejection, the brokenness and even while you walked together you felt like you had been walking alone.  That's why you walked away. There was too much division, the will of God could not be performed in the union, the purpose of God was being halted, and you cried and prayed and prayed and cried.

You sowed so many tears, you could replenish a lake in drought.  You cried so many nights and beg God to change things.  God will not override someone's will.  The proud and rebellious will do what they will.  So your prayers God did hear, but his hands are tied when someone will not and is unwilling to submit to his will.  But now when its time for you to face the past and kiss it goodbye and bid it farewell, your heart goes back to places that were indeed powerful and filled with emotion and passion.  But passion is of the flesh and emotion pulls to your carnal side rather than your spirit man.  So although those things surface they are not the will of God nor are they coming from the Spirit of God.  It is just your desire to mend what is unrepairable and already finished.

It is indeed hard to say goodbye to yesterday, but saying goodbye to yesterday is necessary so that you can see what's coming in front of you.  Yesterday is behind you and you can't see with your head looking back.  Your weeping may endure for a night but joy indeed comes in the morning.  You're crying now, but joy will be restored in time.  Every tear that you have sown God will restore your sorrow with joy.

This is not the time to step backwards, step side ways, or question the decisions you have made.  God brought you this far.  You came this far by faith, you came this far by trusting God,  you came this far by believing God.  Keep holding on even now when the core of your emotion fills your throat and choke the words in your mouth.  Hold on!  Hold fast!  Hold up! 

Yes, you can say goodbye and mean it and not look back anymore.  Time does not go backwards.  It does not stand still.  But it presses forward, so must you.