Everyone has a past.
And here’s the truth:
There will always be opportunities to hold onto trauma and regrets and to see them play out again and again through different situations as life goes on.
It is a lie that this baggage stays buried in the past. If it’s not dealt with and surrendered to Jesus, it will come back to haunt us and steal the joy and the peace out of the now.
Here’s the thing about the past: if we allow it, our past can separate us from God’s love.
Look, in the scripture section below, it lists out all of the things that CANNOT separate us from the love of God, however, one item is not on the list. Our past.
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” - Romans 8:38-39 NKJV
Interesting, isn’t it? Our past can have the power (if we allow it) to separate us from the love of God and bring death into our lives.
And it’s so true. It’s easy look at what we’ve done and go, “wow that was so bad. Surely God loves me less or could never love me because I did that or said that.”
When we get our attention off of Jesus and onto ourselves, the end result is not pretty. We get caught up in a bunch of gunk (that Jesus paid to remove), whether positive or negative, and we stop moving forward into the life and future He has created us for and called us to.
Think about this…in Genesis 19, Lot and his family fled Sodom and Gomorrah to avoid the coming destruction. They were given a stern warning not to stop for anything and not to look back.
BUT Lot’s wife STOPPED and looked back (much like what happens when we stop to look back to our own past), and the “past” caught up to her and killed her.
She ended up as a pillar of salt.
Dead. Useless.
Yikes.
Looking back at our past and staying there can do the same thing to us. We freeze, remembering all of the happy and the horrible, and if we stay in that position, the yuck from our past will pile up on us, much like the salt on Lot’s wife. This renders us useless, frozen in time, and made out of something that is toxic to the ground around us (salt).
We can end up poisoning the now and the future and robbing the life out of it because salt renders ground sterile and unable to produce crops.
That choice to stop and look back can cost us dearly.
Don’t look back.
The past doesn’t actually matter. It’s under the Blood of Jesus. It’s bought and paid for.
“Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new.” - 2 Corinthians 5:17 CEV
Where your focus is, that is where you will travel. You don’t want to go backwards, or become stuck, you want to move forward into hope and a good future! (Jeremiah 29:11)
“Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching out for the things that are ahead, with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 3:13-14 NET
There is no reason to stay in bondage if we have Jesus as our Lord and Savior! Get free!
Don’t hold onto that nasty baggage like it’s an old beloved teddy bear. It isn’t. It’s a plugged volcano waiting to blow at the worst time.
Give your past to Jesus. See it covered in His blood, bought and paid for. It. Is. Done. Get what He has to say about it. His truth (the truth) will set you free.
You’ve got this mama!
Be watching for Part Two…it addresses the truth about our past(s) in the light of parenting and motherhood. It’s going to be good!
Blessings and love,
Kristi
Xoxoxo
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