Well
Ladies, So glad you joined me on this journey, this Quest for Wholeness! Just
like Paul and Joshua, we all have things in our life we need to forget.
- Forget doesn't mean that our past never comes in our mind again, but that we stop acting on the memory of it.
If not,
we might stay linked to a past that hinders us from the future, the Promised
Land, or the Wholeness that God intends. Our pasts and futures all look
different, but wholeness is a part of every believer’s future who links to the
truth of God’s word rather than the reality of their past. Linked to our past
keeps us connected to who we were.
Joshua
could have easily stayed linked to Moses’ memory and missed the Promised Land.
But Joshua listened and responded to God in obedience. Joshua learned to trust
in God’s love. He learned that God’s word and direction for His life was good,
right, and true. Paul learned the same lesson. Paul said, “what things were
gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. (Phil. 3:7) Therefore, Paul
said he forgot those things which were behind and reached forward to those
things which were ahead. (Phil. 3:13)
I
always think about the way God’s spiritual healing in my life affected my
children’s life. I remember the day my daughter (10 at the time) heard my
testimony of my ugly sinful past. Wise for her age she said, “Mom, do you
realize how different my life would be if Jesus had not changed your life?”
WOW! Girl, do I ever!
I love your quite about forgetting! It's not that we don't remember our past but that we just don't act on it. Wow! I wish I would've thought about that a long time ago. I've got to break the cycle of acting on my past, typically by hiding in the shadows, and be the person God has called me to be apart from my past!
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