Get Past Your Past
Every day starts a new day, yesterday is past, tomorrow isn’t here. What can you change today, what can you leave behind from yesterday, what can you look forward to tomorrow?
Too many dwell in the shadow of yesterday’s that hinder their today’s. Thoughts, emotions, actions. Sometimes it’s hard to move past hurt, anger, frustration, unforgiveness, painful memories, broken relationships, fears, sorrows, disappointments.
But in order to go forward and grow in God, we must leave everything that is hindering our growth in the past, we must bury it, and stop resurrecting it. Whatever brings you down, leave it in the past.
After the devastation of Jerusalem, and all Jeremiah endured, he said, “This I recall to mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.. Lamentations 3:21-23.
What did Jeremiah recall to mind that gave him hope? V.18-20; Jeremiah says “my strength and my hope is perished from the LORD,” he was remembering his affliction and his misery, they were as wormwood (bitterness) and gall to him, but somehow his mindset changed. Why? Because he recalled to mind the mercy of the LORD, his compassions that don’t fail! His faithfulness that brought Jeremiah through all his afflictions and heartaches, his troubles and sorrows! And they are new every morning! Each sunrise comes with a new supply of God’s mercies and compassions. He is a faithful Father!
Recall to mind what God has brought you through, rejoice in it and close the door to the past disappointments, upsettings, turmoil, fears, torments. Change your mindset! Apostle Paul said in Philippians 3; “This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. And Philippians 4; “Think on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report.
Let go of the past and grab hold of today in God! A day of peace, joy, hope, strength, faith. Jeremiah found that the LORD is his portion, and the LORD is good, therefore he had hope, because our Father is faithful!
God bless.