2020 is here 2019 is gone.
"FORGET the former things; Do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!” (Isaiah 43:18)
Dwelling on
Fixating on
THE PAST
inhibits you from living in the present & facing the future.
Isn’t the future
the unknowns of tomorrow & the “what ifs”
that we fear?
THE PAST
encompasses anything that happens from this second back
to the day you were born.
But how do we FORGET something that we did or someone else did?
TO FORGET~
To Remember NOT.
To Keep Regurgitating NOT.
To keep picking off the scab of a bruise NOT.
Yet
THE PAST
has become a part of you & I as it happened.
Dwelling on yesterday
& the day before that
& the day before that
is like going up a down escalator
as it keeps you in the same place.
You & I can't remove our PAST.
Is there something from the PAST that is weighing you down?
Is it~
A wounded heart?
A I wish I didn't do this or that?
A I wish they didn't do this or that?
What do you need to say goodbye to that is following you everywhere
infecting the present
because you just can't let go?
Life is made up of a series of goodbyes
but the goodbyes are always followed by a hello—
a Hello to a NEWNESS~
because of a
FORGIVEN & HEALED PAST~
"Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." (Isaiah 43:19).
Because of the
ONE
who came to
"Heal the brokenhearted"(Luke 4:18)~
So when you & I look back to
THE PAST
with
JESUS
it doesn't crush us to a point of deep despair
that keeps us stuck from PRESSING FORWARD in the present
on our way to our future.
Let's welcome 2020
by
FASTING
from
THE PAST
by
placing it into
JESUS' HANDS
so we can experience
every NEW Moment with a
NEW PEACE
NEW JOY
NEW HOPE
because
HE has our
Yesterdays, Todays & Tomorrows
IN HIS HANDS.
Therefore
"JUST BE HELD" (listen to the song below)