Leaving The Past Behind

As we grow & change our behaviors, mindsets, lifestyles and overall lives for better in an attempt to provide more meaningful lives for ourselves and others in our circle.....there will ALWAYS be those few who constantly try to pull you back to your past life, attitudes, behaviors or perspectives. Sadly, it's because they can't positively progress and move beyond past things, failures and destructive behaviors in their own lives. So they constantly try to hold you captive to parts of your past & a life they may have shared with you because they realize they have no true functionality in your present and/or future life.

Putting our past behind us & moving forward should give a sense of pride, while providing us with a new freedom, new peace of mind. Don't ever allow anyone to keep you hostage in your past! If they choose to travel constantly down the dark roads of past events, truly that is their choice & they are welcomed to do so. However, we also have a choice not to travel with them and allow ourselves to be placed in bondage that Jesus freed us from years ago.

Philippians 3:13-14

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, i press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 43:18

"Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past."

Colossians 1: 13-14

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature, the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Isaiah 65:16

Because he who is blessed in the earth will be blessed by the God of truth; And he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; Because the former troubles are forgotten, And because they are hidden from My sight!