God is love ! God loves you! But the problem is many of us don't understand what true love is and I can't really blame you because many of us have not experienced true love. One area many find if hard to experience love is our past . Many of us , if not all have done things we are shameful of in the past. Many of us have done things we wish we had never done and wish we could go back and change. Many of us walk around heavy, depressed because of a guilty conscience from past mistakes, sins .
Many of us walk around feeling worthless because of our past and what make things worse is we find ourselves unable to speak about them because people will judge us, look down on us and hold us to our past. Many people identified us for what we did and the past and still see us as the same person. As a result many of us identify ourselves with our past, unable to break free from our past traumas. Being bound to our past can lead to toxic behaviors in the present as we can be secretly angry and volatile. And so we lash out, feel misunderstood and yet fearing to express the real cause of our fustrations, our past.
How was your past ? Were you a bad kid ? Were you a very disrespectful person in the past? Were you a thief in the past ? Did you commit some heinous crimes in the past ? Were you very promiscuous, sleeping around with many people ? Did you get pregnant out of wedlock 🤰🏾? Were you molested as a young person ? Were you married and got pregnant by someone other than your husband 😥? Did you make a girl do an abortion? Did you get an abortion ? How was your past friends?
I am here to tell you today that no matter how shady, how sinful, how shameful your past was it can be redeemed. There is one who will not condemn you nor look down on you because of your past but who is seeking to heal you from them. Friends, I am here to tell you to no longer identify yourself by your past but through Jesus who is able to redeem you from your past. It is time we bring our past to the foot of the cross and leave them there .
Your past is your testimony. The Bible speaks about people's past to show God's grace. David was a murderer and yet he became a man according to God's own heart. Rahab was a prostitute , a bad girl and yet she became a descendant of Jesus Christ. Jacob was a deceiver and yet his name was changed to Israel, God blessed him and made him a great man. Ruben slept with his father's concubine . Judah slept with his daughter in law masquerading as a prostitute and yet Jesus came from the tribe of Judah .Your past no matter how bad, shameful and disgusting can be redeemed by Jesus .
God doesn't look at your past to condemn you, but He sees what He can make of you if you will bring your life to Him, your past to Him. The Lord will redeem you from your sinful past and will use you to help others who are struggling with the same past you used to struggle. Your past in God will become a testimony of how good God is to you. "Yes I used to be bad, but the Lord has transformed me, yes I used to a drunkard but the Lord sober me up, yes I got pregnant 🤰🏾 out of wedlock but I am married to Jesus now, yes I used to be this, I used to be that but Jesus has rescued me, clean me up and has set me in heavenly places with Christ. "Yes, my past was bad, but Jesus is good."
Jesus is in the business of restoring lives, of healing the broken, of redeeming our past. Do not let your past define you, but in Jesus use your past to go and tell others how good God has been to you, how the Lord has saved me, " a wretched and miserable sinner," and has made me a son, a daughter of God. Friends, let us all go to prayer at the feet of Jesus, let is bring all our past, shame and guilt to Him, let us leave them there and let go and proclaim to others struggling how good God is, how deep His love for us is, how no matter our past He loves us and He is seeking to enter into close fellowship with us. God can redeem our past, let is seek Him today 🙏🏾
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