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Originally Posted by rkentsmith
I am so thankful for the grace of God.....
And the blood of Jesus Christ.....
The blood covers the past.....
And he forgets it.....
It is so sad that those that claim liberation and the grace of God cannot be Christlike enough to forgive and foget the past and allow the blood to cover it....
Instead it must be rehashed time and time again.....
Heb 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; KJV |
Sometimes it's good to revisit the past. I do lots and every time I do for the most part it just makes me thankful over and over and over again for God's goodness to me.
There are things that have happened in the past that when I think about them makes my heart hurt, but they are part of who I am. I've had to deal with that and move on ..... and when we do that
properly there is no bitterness. No lashing out and back. No blame and no pointing fingers.
We gain understanding as time moves on and we look back at past events. We gain wisdom as well.
I don't want to ever stop looking back, even at the things that have hurt. They are part of me, part of who I am and those things can help to make us stronger, better and even more determined to allow God to shape us and mold us and direct us.
People say, "just get over it". Well, it's partly true. You need to get over bitterness and all the other junk that goes with that. But I never want to get over my past - even the bad. Deal with it properly and move on but the past will always be the past. I appreciate mine - even the stuff I thought would kill me at the time.
