Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. (1Pet 1:21 ESV)

Is your past preventing you from being a fully devoted Christ follower and a Christian worker? Are you a Christian without honour? Isn’t easier to be “Christ-like” around people who do not know your past? Jesus was in his hometown teaching in the synagogue. The townspeople that he grew up with were listening and were amazed.

But look at the bitter words they lash out “Isn’t the mere carpenter, the one who works with his hands, isn’t this the illegitimate son of Mary? Isn’t this the guy with the very ordinary brothers and sisters?” (Matt 13:55).

Do people do this to you today? The evil one wants us to live in our past. He wants to remind us of all the excess baggage we are carrying around. God on the other hand wants us to repent and ask forgiveness for our past, and then God forgets and looks forward. God wants us to place our excess baggage at the foot of the cross and leave it there. Never go back and claim the sins of our past. Leave them at the cross.

Jesus continued to travel throughout the land teaching and performing miracles. He never looked back.

Do the same. Don’t keep looking back at your past forgiven sins, keep looking toward the Cross: The cross of forgiveness, the cross of redemption and salvation.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. (Isa 42:3 ESV)

With Christ, there is endless hope!
But without Christ there will be hopeless end.

Follow Him!
For He knows your future, holds your future, and is your future!

Prayer: Lord, whatever my past may be, I put them behind me because You have put them behind You, and have fully and freely forgiven me. I know that my past will not affect the future You have in store for me.

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