There are days when you feel like the things happening to you today
are because of some things you did or didn't do in the past. There are
even times when you feel like if some things didn't happen in your past,
you would have been alot better today. You don't have to dwell on such
thoughts because you will end up depressed. Quite alot has happened but
what we have to do is to move forward with hope in what our Lord Jesus
has done for us. Jesus died for all sins and he didn't select those He
wanted to die for. Holding unto your past and giving it room to condemn
you is denying what Jesus did for you and with you from His death on the
cross, burial, resurrection on the third day, ascension and He's at the
right hand of the Father for you and as you. Embrace your identity in
Christ, refuse to condemn yourself (Romans 8:1). God's love for you
outweighs any weakness you will ever have. He doesn't condemn you but He
has called you His own, belonging to His beloved family and don't forget
He is the Author of our relationship with Him (Ephesians 1:3-9). You
are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus which is to say you have
been cleared of any sin through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ (2
Corinthians5:21, Romans 3:22).Romans 5:8... but God
shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
for us. We have been justified by faith in our Lord and savior Jesus
Christ (Romans 5:1) when your thoughts want to condemn you regarding
your past tell yourself you were bought with a price which is Jesus
Christ and you have been made whole in Him. Jesus is not ashamed to call
you brethren and your life is hid with Christ in God! Ephesians 2:4-5 says "But
God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved
us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together
with Christ— by grace you have been saved". You were worth dying for because you are precious to God! 2 Corinthians 5:17Amplified Bible (AMP)
puts it in the best way ever "Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that
is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is
a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things
[the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold,
new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life]".
Dear brethren, don't let a past that no longer exist ruin what God has
given to you in Christ Jesus. Everyday, make a commitment with yourself to hold onto who God says you are than who you think you are. God's opinion of you is perfect and needs no addition or subtraction. The only way to overcome condemnation of yourself is to acknowledge your identity in Christ because in Him you have peace,joy and love. In Him alone you live and move and have your being (Acts 17:28).Your only past now is the death of Jesus
on the cross which gave you your new life in Him!
You're Blessed!!!
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