Regrets.
If you’ve lived for a decent number of years, you’ll have a stock of them.
Some big, some small, but all heavy.
Mistakes, things done, things not done, decisions driven by fear and insecurity, moments where emotion took the wheel and drove in all the wrong directions.
Speaking with the Holy Ghost about some of my own, He said this to me.
“Don’t let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage.”
Think about it.
We mess up, sometimes royally, and from that point on, our point of reference screams, “You’re an idiot!” Then, when the Holy Ghost invites you to new horizons, you politely decline because ‘idiots’ don’t get the privilege of second chances (or third, fourth, or fiftieth).
Nailed to past mistakes.
I’ve been there, beating myself up because of things I did or didn’t do, convinced that my future was bound to those memories.
Draw a line in the sand of time today.
Here’s a present truth worth reminding yourself and receiving afresh:
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ…” (2 Corinthians 5:17–18 KJV)
Your future is in good hands.
Rest in that reality and embrace a hopeful outlook. The clouds of yesteryear, however dark, are no match for the light of Christ that shines in your heart, growing brighter every day.
“But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18 KJV)