Don’t let your past steal your future

On Wed, 21 Sept 2011 I was visited by my past… and it looked much more promising and safer that my future because I think I was more familiar with it. It was something that I knew… But it was something I have to let go… And I almost grabbed a hold of it again…

Don’t let your past steal your future ~Pumza Mooi

I have decided to let go of the past. Not because of the pain or the unpleasantness of it. But because by focusing on it, I may miss out on what is ahead for me. The thing is, the past is meant to be left behind and the future is something to be looked forward to. Whether good or bad, the past is just what it is. A memory, a record of what had been. We cannot keep testifying and bragging about old blessings, successes and stale anointing. God is a God of new and fresh things. He is the God of hope and we can only hope for something that’s in the future.   Jeremiah 29:11” For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. “

Focusing on the past robs us of the joy and even the pain of today. Everything in our lives happens for a reason and at a set time. While holding on to yesterday’s pain, one might be missing out on today’s joy. If we hold on to yesterday’s joy we might be missing out on today’s pain which could lead us to tomorrow’s peace and joy. We could be missing out on the experience of God’s comfort and peace, His ability to move us from a muddy clay to a King’s highway. We could be holding on to yesterday’s sin, our disobeying Him and miss out on His forgiveness  Lamentation 3: 22 “It is because of the Lord's mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness.”

God has a new thing for you… Let go of the past, whatever it is. Open your hands to receive. Open them and let what you are holding just fall out and see if He won’t fill them with something new that’s bigger and better. Let go of what is familiar and seems safe and take a leap of faith and trust Him. Isaiah 43:19  “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”

I am letting go of the past…

Philippians 3:13 “I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.”

Stay blessed

P