by Charles R. Swindoll
If anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creature,
the old things passed away;
behold, new things have come.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Some of the unhappiest people I've ever known are living
their lives looking over their shoulder.
What a waste! Nothing back there can be changed.
What's in the past? Only two things: great attainments and
accomplishments that could either make us proud by reliving them or indifferent
by resting on them . . . or failures and defeats that cannot help but arouse
feelings of guilt and shame. Why in the world would anyone want to return to
that quagmire? I've never been able to figure that one out.
By recalling those inglorious, ineffective events of
yesterday, our energy is sapped for facing the demands of today. Rehearsing
those wrongs, now forgiven in grace, derails and demoralizes us. There are few
joy stealers more insidious than past memories that haunt our minds. . . .
Forget the past!
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