Episode 452 - Show Notes
- For a lot of people, the past holds a difficult childhood, an abusive marriage, the loss of a loved one, or a difficult financial situation. Yet no matter how painful our past may have been, for some strange reason we often choose not to let go. In order to get on with our future and simplify our lives, we must choose to make a clean break and leave the past behind.
- Staying stuck in the past can keep us from the new thing God wants to do. What a tragedy to be paralyzed by the past and to miss the plans God has for us. What a powerful thought…God wants to do a new thing in your life!
- We all have a “past.” There are sins, mistakes, poor choices, and failures in our story. The guilt and shame of our past can keep us from the life Jesus has for us. Through the power of God we put the past behind us and walk forward in God’s freedom. Our biggest sins are not too big for God’s grace.
- We will hold on to some bad experience and it will become an anchor that weighs us down. We will remember a hurt that someone inflicted and it will eat us up. We will remember a time when we stumbled and we will determine to never try again.
- How we deal with the painful times of the past will determine how we live in the present. We must learn from the pain and then move on. What God has forgiven should never be taken as a burden again.
- So, how are you doing with the past? Is it holding you back? Do you feel paralyzed by past sins, mistakes and failures? Do you feel that your past has disqualified you for any positive future in God?
- I encourage you to stand on the authority of God’s Word. In Christ, our past has been forgiven and our future is secure.
Isaiah 43:18-19 - “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
Philippians 3:13-14 - “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
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