Regret believe me is worst of all human emotions. For a long time, whenever I remembered certain events from my past, I felt miserable so I began learning the deeper meaning of forgiveness and realized that true freedom comes from letting go of the past.
The past is a tricky thing and many of us today are paralyzed by it (our past). Interestingly, most of the things we beat ourselves over are things we cannot change so why do we often spend time and energy crying over spilt milk?
It is almost unbelievable the amount of energy some of us waste crying over things we cannot change. It’s high time some of us grew up. There are certain things in our lives we cannot possibly change and we have to be clear about them.
We cannot change the death of a loved one.
We cannot change a business failure. If it’s over, it’s over.
We cannot change the fact that some of us have had bitter break ups.
We cannot change the decisions people make. Some people learn how to make good decisions after they must have made bad ones.
We cannot change the betrayal of a loved one. Believe it or not, in life, you will sooner or later have someone betray you and when that happens, get over it.
Oftentimes, we allow past events to hunt and hurt us to a point where we end up hurting people, breaking up our family relationships and hurting innocent people.
When we hold on to the pains of the past, they define who we are in the present so my question to you is, what wounds from you past are you letting define you at the moment?..
We all have horrible moments in our lives but we cannot continually dwell on it. No matter how difficult or painful our past is we just have to cut ourselves off from it because it has a tendency of messing up our present and our future.
Sometimes it’s hard to forgive ourselves for the silly crazy things we do (or have done) but in truth, the highest form of forgiveness is PERSONAL FORGIVENESS…When we don’t forgive ourselves we become bitter and hurting.
One of the things we can (and should) do to guarantee future success is to forget about past failures. The greatest days of our lives are before us and not behind us so let’s focus on where we are heading – the future.
In conclusion, I want reiterate all I have said… so even if you get nothing out of this note, get this… THE PAST IS DEAD I say that again THE PAST IS DEAD so get over it.
Have you been hurt? GET OVER IT.
Have you been jilted? GET OVER IT.
Have you been abused? GET OVER IT.
Have you been betrayed? GET OVER IT.
Have you been criticized? GET OVER IT.
Have you been denied a visa? GET OVER IT.
Have you failed? GET OVER IT. The fact that you fail then don’t mean that you will fail now.
It’s time to focus on the present and commit to the brighter FUTURE God has in store for us. It’s time to stop dwelling in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunities. It’s time to release ourselves from the burden of the past and do something decent with our lives.
God never consults our past to determine our future - John Hagee.
Whatever is done is done and over. Our past has been forgiven and our future redeemed by God. Scripture says in 2Corinthians 5:7 (CEV) “Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new”
My past is dead and I’m over it…
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If we spend time dwelling on the past, our lives will drift by before we know it.
ReplyDeleteLet’s continue to live in the grace and mercy of God knowing that the past is DEAD, the past is GONE and OVER…
Hmmm! What can I possibly say? It was just as though you were talking to me.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great healing to me Emmanuel. Thank you so much for this post.
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