Is Yesterday Really Gone?

The past is just that, the past and we cannot turn around and change anything in our past.  But yet and still we can find ourselves living in a place (past) that is long gone.

If we live in our past it can ultimately affect our future success.  Living in the past can cause relationships to be stagnant or die, it can cause us to not move ahead into the things that God has for us in our future. Living in a state of unforgiveness for something that happened in the past can affect our well being, our future, our mindset about life, as well as our health. Living in the past can cause us to relive past traumatic circumstances in our mind.

Something we brought on ourselves.

1 John 1: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

We have to come out of the past to receive the new things that God has for us.

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.

We no longer live for ourselves which makes it easier to not focus on ourselves and the things of the past.  This equation is about Christ now not (put your name here).

Galatians 2: 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Looking into the past while trying to be in the future does not produce anything positive.

Luke 9:62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

If someone is plowing a field and looks back, they will naturally turn and not plow in straight rows.

If the furrow is crooked, the rows of corn sprouting from the seed planted in it will be crooked, and difficult to cultivate.

Sometimes we stay in the past because we feel like someone still needs to get what they deserve for hurting us or we feel like there is something we can do to change what happened.  For Example, people spend time trying to revitalize broken relationships with people that have moved on, we want to get someone back for something they did to us, we like a place we are at even though it serves us no good purpose as a season may be over.

Psalm 37: 1-6

Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pastures. Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.

So what should I do and or recognize starting today and moving forward?

Psalm 118: 24 This is the day that the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.

Lamentations 3: 22-23 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Luke 1: 78-79

Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God’s Sunrise will break in upon us, Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace.

Philipians 3: 14  Paul said “I am forgetting the things of the past and I press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus.

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