Past as Reference, Not Residence: Overcoming Fear

1/18/19So I’ve been thinking lately as I’m coming up on another year on this rock and reflecting on the past, both good and bad. And one of the things I keep coming back to is what and why I feared some of the things I’ve been through and survived and what or why would I fear what’s ahead of me. I think with the current environment we are all wondering some of the same. But fear is out to destroy us. The enemy uses it to keep us from going where God has called us to go. One of the ways the enemy makes us fearful of the present is by bringing up the past – our past mistakes, our past pain, and our past failures. I had a lot of them in 52 years. However, it’s like when driving a car - if we want to go somewhere, we need to spend more time looking through the windshield than the rear-view mirror. We need to look more at where we are going rather than where we’ve been. It’s the same in life. If we are going to face the fears the enemy uses to stop us in the future, we will need to learn from the past, but not live in it. The past is a place of reference, not residence. As it has been said many times, ‘Your history does not need to dictate your destiny.’ Today is a new day, so let’s enjoy looking at the glorious future God has for us. Let’s allow God’s Spirit to lead us to ‘where our trust is without borders,’ and may we walk across those borders, wherever God has called us, in freedom from fear of the past.“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”Psalms 27:1 Have a great weekend!Be Nice, Grace wins