Moving Past the Past

This morning I read in my devotion about keeping my eyes on Christ. Sometimes that is SO hard to do when there are so many entertaining distractions in this world we live in. I personally am working on it in my own life, and do my very best to try and stay focused. Sometimes I flat out do not want to because there is something else I would rather do. Then there are the times I fall into my old way of thinking and let 'stuff' come back and haunt me. Things I've done, people I have lost. Those old fears that the devil likes to use against me so I am unable to move forward and do God's work the way He wants me to.

I used to wonder why God did things to me... yep, wrong frame of mind. God allowed things to happen in my life to build me into the person I am today, and if those things and hardships and mistakes had not happened, I would be a completely different person. I love who I have become, because those fires and very deep valley's I went through forged me into someone who cannot be taken down by the devil. I am not weak - although I fail daily. I am not perfect - I make many mistakes. I want to do good, but don't always succeed. It is because I am human and fallible.

In the other side of this, there are so many people hurting all over the world, and not a whole lot I can do about it personally. Maybe my meager words can touch someone's life for the better, but that is all up to God's work.

Join with me in casting AWAY those things you are allowing to affect your life! Do not let things that have happened in your past affect your future… that was yesterday, tomorrow is new. Call upon the name of Jesus and dump that baggage! The key is… don’t let it all come rolling back on you.

 

Psalm 16:8 (NASB)

⁸I have set the Lord continually before me;
Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

 

Psalm 141:8 (NASB)

⁸ For my eyes are toward You, O God, the Lord;
In You I take refuge; do not leave me defenseless.

 
I got a new album yesterday and there is a song on there that speaks to this kind of thing. Phillips, Craig and Dean I Choose to Believe from Breathe In

Chorus:

I choose to believe
And never give up hope
God is good
He's in control
I'll keep the faith
I trust in His way
Even when His face is hard to see
I choose to believe

 

GOD is in control…He’s got whatever it is that has a hold on you. Just give it to Him and let Him take control of it, then have faith He will keep you from reverting to whatever those chains are that bind you.

Yes, the chains that bind you… events in your life that cause you to not trust the good things in your life, a bad habit, how you view yourself. All of it, those are binding chains. Let them GO…in the Precious, Holy name of Jesus Christ!

(The entire album is amazing. Go get it! And here is the lyric video from I Choose to Believe)