If you are paralyzed by your past, if Satan is destroying your gifts and your calling by his incessant replaying of old tapes, you’re actually being hit by a double whammy. The original damage in the past is one thing – but now you’re letting yourself be hurt and sidetracked again by the memory of what happened… We should not be ignorant of Satan’s devices, and these ugly memories are one of the main weapons in his arsenal.
Past
Oswald Chambers
February 4, 2020
Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
Gary Chapman
The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.
Gary Chapman
Elizabeth George
Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.
Francis Frangipane
Although we cannot alter the past, we can put our past on the altar.
David Pawson
Bad deeds are no hindrance, and good deeds no help, when you come to God for salvation.
Francis Frangipane
People say, “Leave your problems in the past.” Well, where is the past? Is it some nether world between time and eternity? No. The past is in us. The only way we can leave the pain or sin from our past is to face it with Christ. For the past cannot be forgotten, it can only be forgiven and redeemed.
A. B. Simpson
Our spiritual life must pass down to deeper depths and on up into higher experiences of life, or we shall lose even what we have. We cannot cling to the sweetest spiritual experiences, the fondest object of our highest joy, without ceasing to grow and bear fruit…. We must learn not only to give up our wrongs, but to give up our rights…. We must turn from the things that are not sinful and learn the great lesson of self renunciation even in rightful things…. We must have the cross mark upon our affections and friendships,…our prayers,…the life of our body…. Our religious experiences must have the mark of the cross on them…. Our service for God must often be buried before it can bring forth much fruit.
S. D. Gordon
The blessed, fruitful, victorious experiences of yesterday are not only of no value to me today, but they will actually be eaten up or reversed by today’s failures, unless they serve as incentives to still better, richer experiences today.
Evelyn Underhill
A wise man has said: “Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.” The past is pardoned: the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse. If you have made a decision, and you still feel, taking it all in all, it was the right one, then don’t look over your shoulder on what might have been. If it was wrong, ask for forgiveness and accept the present consequences, happily and without remorse. Nothing is more corrosive of the powers you should be using to meet the present.