Letting God Loose in Your Past
2 Corinthians 2:17 If anyone believes in Jesus, he or she is a new creation. everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
Just imagine if you could leave the past behind. Not just “the” past, but “your” past. The things that you wish you could redo, or undo. The things that are hurting you still today, because, well, the past just has a way of doing that.
Imagine if that slate, the slate of your past, with all its hurts and regrets, could be wiped clean.
Do you have any idea, as I look back, of all the mistakes I’ve made? All the things I’ve managed to get so wrong in my life? The list is longer than I’d care to think about.
And my hunch is, it’s not a lot different for you either. Things that have happened to you. Things that you managed to get so terribly wrong. People you’ve hurt, relationships that you’ve broken, opportunities that you’ve missed … it goes on and on, right?
What if that slate, your slate, could be wiped clean? What if you really could have a new start – maybe not on the outside so much, but on the inside? Where you live. Where it really counts.
The things that have happened in your past, well, they’re completely out of your control at this point. Of all the things out of your control in your life, think about this, your past is the biggest one – it’s an accumulation that’s been a lifetime in the making. And you can’t turn the clock back. You simply can’t!
But God isn’t constrained by time. God is the Lord of the past, the present and the future. And when we let Him loose in our past, when we hand our past over to Him, when we start to believe that He can deliver us from the hurts and the regrets of our past – which for many people remain incredibly real – then all of a sudden, we can lay hold of this outrageous promise.
If anyone believes in Jesus, he or she is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! (2 Corinthians 2:17)
I want you to notice something about what God is saying to you today. He is not saying that you will become a new creation. It’s not in the future tense. This promise is written in the present tense. So, if anyone believes in Jesus, trusts their lives into His hands, he or she is, already, a new creation. Is!
So … let me challenge you here. What if you let God be God and let Him loose on your past? What if you trusted Jesus to set you free from whatever it is in your past that still haunts you? What if you believed this promise from God, with your life? What if you lived your life as though it was true?
How different would things be then?
God loves you so much. That’s why He sent Jesus to you. To set you free.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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