Leave the Past Behind!

Failures and disappointments. Aches and pains from the past that just won't seem to go away. Most of us know what it's like to suffer from them but too few of us know just what to do about them. So we limp along, hoping somehow they'll magically stop hurting.


But it never happens that way. In fact, the passing of time often leaves us in worse condition--not better. Because, instead of putting those painful failures behind us, we often dwell on them until they become more real to us than the promises of God. We focus on them until we become bogged down in depression, frozen in our tracks by the fear that if we go on, we'll only fail again.

If depression has driven you into a spiritual nosedive, break out of it by getting your eyes off the past and onto your future--a future that's been guaranteed by Christ Jesus through the great and precious promises in His Word.


Forget about those failures in the past! That's what God has done (Heb. 8:12). And if He doesn't remember them any more, why should you? The Bible says God's mercies are new every morning. So if you'll take God at His Word, you can wake up every morning to a brand-new world. You can live life totally unhindered by the past.


So, do it! Replace thoughts of yesterday's mistakes with scriptural promises about your future. Pretty soon, instead of looking behind you and saying, "I can't," look ahead and say, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!"

Source: "Kenneth Copeland"