During the years that I pastored a wonderful bunch of folks at Faith Mountain Church in Red River, NM I said on a number of occasions "Yesterday will kill you if you let it." All of us have "yesterdays" that we wished had never happened. I'm not talking about the inevitable days of illness or death. I'm talking about times when we preformed very poorly or worse. Actions that perhaps still haunt us....still bring pain to our hearts. In their book "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made" Dr.Paul Brand and Philip Yancey tell of amputees still feeling sensation in a phantom limb. Somewhere, locked in their brains, a memory lingers of the nonexistent arm or leg. For a few, the experience includes pain. Doctors watch helplessly, for the part of the body screaming for attention that does not exist."
For those of us you are followers of Jesus, we can and must move on from the pain of our yesterdays. In Philippians 3:13b we find these liberating words "....I've got my eye on the goal, where God is calling us onward- to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back." The Message. God is well aware of all of our yesterdays....Move on now. Forget(to lose out of mind: Strongs) and move on. We are not helpless.....
Grace and Peace
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