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Your Past Is Not
God’s Future for You
The ‘new man’ is the ‘new you’ made for a ‘new future’
by Rex Rouis
Your
past need not be your future.
God
has a bright future in store for you, if you will accept it and believe it.
“I know the plans that I have for you, declares the
LORD. They are plans for peace and not disaster, plans to give you a future
filled with hope.” Jeremiah 29:11
You
can’t do that if you are always looking to your past instead of to His future.
His
plans for you are in His promises, and those precious promises can come alive
only by seeking Him about them.
He
can give you the directions in the map of His word on how to get there.
Jesus
is the way, the road to blessing and salvation. Seek Him and hear from Him,
this is the way of faith, and faith is the way of the victor.
“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This
is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.” I John 5:4
One
cannot be both a victim and a victor at the same time. Choose to be one or the
other.
Religion,
most of the time, tries to be both and ends up being neither.
Guilt
and a low spiritual self-esteem will keep you in the prison-house of
victimhood. It will keep you in the past of yourself instead of the future of
Him.
Being
‘In Him’ is being in His life and in His future.
Your
past is not His future for you.
It
is not easy to put on the ‘new man’ in Christ (the ‘new you’ In Him), but we
must.
The
‘new man’ is the ‘new you’ made for a ‘new future.’
You
are valuable in His eyes, so treat yourself as valuable in your own eyes. This
is not always easy.
Sometimes
you are going to have to choose to forget the past and ignore all that is
around you.
Walking
by faith is not walking by sight, or walking by feelings, and it sure is not
walking in the past.
Treating
yourself as valuable is not pride but true humility before God.
To
do anything less is disobedience to the God Who has great plans for you and has
promised great things for you.
Walk
with Him in the light of His love and mercy.
“If we walk in the light as He Himself is in the
light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son
cleanses us from all sin.” I John 1:7
Remember,
you have no past and He has your future. Wouldn’t it be nice if life was really
like this?
Well,
it can be if you walk in the light as He is in the light and allow His blood to
cleanse you from all sin, and from all the left-over stuff of the past.
God
has created a great separator between the past and the future, it is called
Today.
Every
day can be a new day of opportunity in the plan and future God has for us.
Forget
yesterday, live in today, and look with hope toward a great tomorrow. Go get’m
Pep.
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