Only let us live up to what we have already attained. (Philippians 3:16)Forgetting the past is so hard. It is hard to forget not only the good but the bad. There are things that you have done that you would give an arm to change. But you can’t.
What you did in the past may have been incredibly stupid and cost you dearly, but it is in the past. It is gone. You can’t change it; you can’t make it any better or worse.
And to sit around the rest of your life bemoaning that mistake does no one any good, least of all you. You have to let it go and put it behind you.
You can’t do anything to change it. All you can do is let it go and go on from here.
That is hard, incredibly hard. How many people have you known who have let a past mistake or illness stop them in their tracks, and have dwelt on it for the rest of their lives?
That wastes the life God gave us to use in service to him.
King David took a woman he wanted and had her husband killed. Yet he asked forgiveness and became a “man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14). He didn’t dwell on it excpet to remember how much the Lord had forgiven him.
Others in the Bible were the same way. They were all flawed people doing dumb things, yet being forgiven and going on from there.
That’s really all you can do. Hanging on to old mistakes will cripple you and God never wanted that. Jesus came to save you from those past mistakes. Accept it and move on.
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