"I wasted my teenage years and those years are gone forever."
How it sounds in your head: Everyone else started working out, getting good grades, building skills. I spent middle school playing video games and scrolling TikTok. Those years are gone and I'm already behind everyone else my age.
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you."
-- Joel 2:25Source: enemy + world system that measures worth by productivity and achievement from childhood.
He sees peers already excelling at sports, academics, music while he feels like he frittered away time. The world screams that success requires early starts and compound effort over years.
This man wasted his ENTIRE LIFE as a criminal—decades of crime, violence, wrong choices. In his LAST HOUR, one conversation with Jesus, and Christ said 'TODAY you will be with Me in Paradise.' Lifetime redeemed in minutes.
I REFUSE the lie that I've wasted years that can't be recovered. IT IS WRITTEN that my Father RESTORES the years the locust has eaten. I don't operate on world timelines—I'm connected to the God outside of time. What took others years to build, He downloads into me in moments. IT IS WRITTEN that I am Abraham's seed and heir according to promise, and the BARAK blessing doesn't depend on how I spent last year. The blood of Jesus redeems my TIMELINE. I am not behind—I am exactly where the Father is launching me from. Every moment from this point forward carries supernatural acceleration.
Your Father isn't disappointed about your past years—He's EXCITED about downloading into you instantly what you think you missed. While you were 'wasting time,' He was preparing something that doesn't require years to access, just connection to the Vine.