Moving Past the Past

 

From Our Pastor's Desk

Our past is what Jesus came to die for and our past has been forgiven by Jesus.  Isaiah 53:5 says “… the chastisement of our peace was upon Him…” This means the chastening (that we should bear), punishment, rebuke, castigation, penalty, condemnation, and painful consequences due from our sins were already upon Jesus. 

And because the consequences of what we did or experienced in the past has been nailed to the cross, we need to put the past where it belongs, in the past, and focus on the future.

The Bible says in 2nd Cor. 5:17-19 “Therefore, if any-one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. 

And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation” In agreement with the above, Paul also said in Philippians 3:13-14  “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” 

The moment we give our lives to Jesus Christ as our Lord & Savior, our past have being forgiven and we no longer live in the past. The devil loves using the past to torment Christians and steal their joy, peace and blessings, so he doesn’t want us to for-get our pasts. 

He knows that the moment we forget our pasts there will be peace of God in our lives. The Lord God has forgiven all our past sins and redeemed us through the Blood of Jesus Christ.  

Brethren, the difference between our past and present/future is MERCY. Thank you Father, for your tender mercies, in Jesus Name. Amen.  

You will have good success this 2021.  

Remain blessed.   

Shalom.