You Can’t Find your Future by Looking into the Past!!
I was talking to a brother in Christ that was questioning the validity of his salvation. He explained that he felt like a failure due to returning to his ways from the past!
I explained that we all fall short (Romans 3:23) from time to time. No one, not even one is righteous (Romans 3:10)
I also explained that satan wants us to dwell on our past failures! We can’t find out future when we are dwelling on our past failures!
If we are always looking into the past at our failures, our lives as sinners…
If we are always connected to people who once brought us down …
That once was involved in sinful activities with us …
If we are always looking behind us we can never see what is before us. Amen?
Hebrews 12:1 (KJV) says Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
(The amplified) THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us,
Our past is an unnecessary weight to carry around! If you have already repented of that, then lay it DOWN!
You cannot build a lasting relationship with God if you are trying to live in the past.
You cannot get over sinful habits if you don’t let them go.
We should never dwell on the past because it can hinder what lies in the future.
If you dwell on past failures you will never get anywhere with God.
If you dwell Long Enough on the things that once brought you down, they will bring you down again.
The main reason so many people turn away from God is they can’t stop living in the past. Israel had this same problem. Their past hindered their future.
They kept looking back to Egypt and their bondage.
Num 11:5-6…. We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: (6) But our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
They didn’t say they remembered their bondage, their beatings and the murder of the family, they remembered the things they had they brought them no gain whatsoever.
They forgot the hardship of how for 400 years they cried to God for deliverance and when it came…. they desired bondage over freedom.
When you live in the past you will never have a future with God.
Bad decisions bring bad company and bad company brings bad habits.
The only hope to have a future in God, is to get away from the past.
2 Corinthians 5:17… Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Amen? It’s time to separate yourselves and let God do a work in you. Amen?
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 GNB (14) Do not try to work together as equals with unbelievers, for it cannot be done. How can right and wrong be partners? How can light and darkness live together? (15) How can Christ and the Devil agree? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? (16) How can God's temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said, "I will make my home with my people and live among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people." (17) And so the Lord says, "You must leave them and separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with what is unclean, and I will accept you. (18) I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
So many of us hold onto the past through our old friends still doing the things we left behind.
Show the love of Christ to them all but it's time to break the yoke that pulls you back into the past.
Have a blessed day
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