I love to head out in the boat and look behind us at the wake we leave behind. I always say to myself, "I'm leaving it all behind." There is no better way for me to finish a tough week than physically seeing me leave all the stuff behind and being on the water!
Some of us take our past and the stress that goes with it everywhere we go, towing it along behind us. It is like we stuff it all in the biggest backpack we can find and carry it, burdening us every step of the way. Some people get stuck in the past always looking back. Maybe they are filled with regrets over bad decisions or haunted by what they did wrong. Some are stuck in the glory of the past, remembering how great they used to be and what great things they used to do. Our past is comfortable but God tells us to forget the former things and not to dwell on the past. In 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."
Our past are important and valuable but we only need to take our lessons learned with us. The past is over and today is a new day. Psalm 118: 24, "The Lord has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad." Do not miss out on the blessings of today because you are stuck in the past. Release the past and live in the moment with God. Philippians 3: 13-14, "Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead."
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