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Keep Your Eyes Forward

As humans we often have a tendency to get caught up in our past. We make a mistake and we dwell on it endlessly as a side-effect of regret. We let our one mistake ,or maybe its multiple mistakes of our past define us, own us. No matter how much pain we go through beating ourselves up over it or the consequences we have accepted because of it, we don't feel its enough. Living in the past only tears us down mentally and spiritually. My question is ,why do we spend so much time in our pasts when we have an entire future. A life full of opportunity and doors waiting to be opened. I think its because we feel safer living in our past wrong doings, than we do opening new doors. Trying new things can give us a sense of insecurity and when we feel insecure ,its our natural reaction to panic. Even if our past is painful and tears us down, we often feel more secure there than chancing a new future. We would rather face pain, heartbreak, sadness, suffering, etc than CHANCE a new beginning or new opportunity. Some of us feel we have no other option but to live in our past. You think that you have no future. You messed up to bad this time and theirs no coming back to the light, but God offers a different promise. The world and our society tells us today that once we mess up, there is no turning back, its over. God offers us a different road to take, the road of redemption. When we take our pasts and our mistakes and wrong doings to God, he takes our scars and he molds us into what he wants. when we let go of our past and give him our futures he can take us farther than we ever imagined. Some will say that its impossible but read the bible because our God has done the impossible. Some will say its not true, no one could ever forgive and love me after everything ,well that's like saying he died on the cross for nothing. And some will say were taking a chance on something mythical, that person has very bad vocabulary because the word isn't mythical, its MIRACLE. God promises us in 1st Samuel 12:17, 19, 20-23, that no matter what our past looks like, if we repent and give him our futures he will welcome us back with open arms. For those our there that say we are chancing our futures, I say I'm just trusting my future with the Kind of the World, it doesn't get any more "secure" than that!

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