What would you like to put behind you? Are there parts of your past you would like to forget? Do you get tired of people bringing up your past? Would you like to be able to hit the restart button? Do you know the restart button is available to you?
Some parts of our past are not pleasant. There may be portions of it we would just as soon forget. We may grow tired of being reminded of the mistakes we have made in the past. We may desire to have a clean start, the ability to move on.
The Apostle Paul tells the Corinthian church they have been made new. By accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they have become a new creation. He reminds them that the past is the past. His words encourage them to move on, leaving the past in the past, and walk in their faith in Jesus.
His words should also be an encouragement for us. We should read and internalize his words. Even if others bring up our past, we can allow it to roll off like water off a duck’s back. Though the past cannot be completely erased, we can stop it from defining who we are. We can move forward in a new way. In fact, we should move forward with newness and pep in our step.
The old saying that we cannot change the past, but we can change the future is true. But we can only do that if we live in Christ as a new creation. Some of us accepted Him as our Lord and Savior, taking it seriously and fully welcoming Him in our lives. Others have only partially done so, holding on to their past and reverting to their past.
Jesus has provided us with an opportunity to let the past go. He has given us an opportunity to hit the restart button. We are a new creation in Him. We need to believe it. When we finally accept it, we can and will step out in our faith and refuse to let our past define us.
I pray we all realize we are a new creation in Christ. I pray we leave our past behind. I pray each one of us will step out in our faith, hitting the restart button, and never turning back. You are a new creation. Put your past behind you. Hit the restart button. Step out in faith.
2 Corinthians 5:17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!
Marty Pressey 