Hubby and I like a lot of the same things. However, I love historical markers and him not so much. I also love turning around and going back to see something we pass. He rarely is willing to turn around and go back.
Oh beloved, what kind of historical markers do you like to visit? And how often do you turn around and go back to something passed?
I mean the historical markers of your life. Those things that were life changing but now they are in the past. Why do you keep going back to those things? It takes a lot of time to go back. It wastes a lot of time rethinking about historical episodes. God isn’t in the past revisiting your trials, traumas or trips of hardship. So why should you?
God wants you to know this morning that you are in the present and you should be experiencing His Presence. Don’t let your mind keep bringing up the past. If you have built markers to remind yourself, tear them down. You can’t relive the past and change a thing by returning. It’s in the former days. And it’s covered under the Blood of Christ. Even good times can wreck your timeline. Memories are meant to be blessings and hardships are meant to be reminders. But going back isn’t fit for the Kingdom royalty you are! Keep going, keep living, keep making new memories and having new highlights of faith!
God loves you and He is for you. He isn’t bringing up the past to make you live a melancholy, miserable, unfortunate life. Run to Him this morning and ask for reconciliation over all the markers of your life. And live forward in the Light of your future so bright!
Isaiah 43:18-19 Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Philippians 3:13-14 But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.