Daily Word: Are you so blinded by your past to the point where you can't focus on your future?

The world tells us that the dominating influence in our lives is our past. The world tells us that if we came from a difficult home life, our race was treated unfairly, we were hurt or abused or if we were rebellious in our youth, then we have no future. The world tells us that our past will determine the direction of our lives, dictate the condition of our present and the future will be spent struggling with our past. In truth, the world is preoccupied with its past because its future is uncertain! But the Christians of the world live in freedom because they know that Christ has overcome the past. God has forgiven the Christian's sin and therefore chooses not to remember it. That "does not" mean that Christians forget the past...it just means that they are not controlled or motivated by it. Christians look toward the future with hope. Because their future is so full, rich and exciting that it supersedes whatever happened in the past.

Philippians 3:13

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.

My thoughts...

Too many people get burdened by their past to the point where they cannot focus on praying and working towards a better future. If more people looked at their past as a life lesson learned then theyw ould recognize that their past is more of a testimony and less of a burden. Whether your past experiences were positive or negative, your future has the potential to much better. My pastore told our congregation this not too long ago while presenting his sermon, "Yesterdays best is today's average." And what he meant by that was you have to continue to strive to better than you've done before. Basically, if you're not growing...you're dying. If you're not getting better...you're getting worst. Everyday, God is giving you another chance to do better than you've done the day before. This is striving for perfection!

Until next post,

Continue to recognize that you're blessed!