Wouldn’t
you like to have a time machine so you could travel back in time to change some
things in your past? You may have done some things that
you'd like to undo. But the past doesn't exist anymore except in your
memory. You can’t change your past
but here are three things that can change.
1. You can’t change what
you did in your past…but you can be cleansed of what you did. Jesus died for all
your sins, not just some of them. If you’ll receive Jesus as your Lord and ask His forgiveness, He says, "I will
remember their sins no more" (Heb. 8:12). If He doesn’t remember them anymore,
then neither should you.
2. You can’t change the
consequences of your past…but you can trust God to use your past as His
testimony. God
“works all things after the counsel of His will (Eph. 1:11). Paul persecuted
and murdered Christians before he was converted (Acts 8:1,3, 26:10) but God
used his tainted past as a testimony of His mercy. People said, “He who
once persecuted us is now
preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy” (Gal. 1:23).
3. You cannot change anything
in your past…but you can change everything about your future. Your life is a book that
you’re writing. The past is gone so you can’t go back in time to rewrite it.
But the future hasn’t happened yet and you can choose the ending of the
book. You might have had a bad start but you can write a good ending. Your book
isn’t finished. Start writing that great ending right now. www.makinglifecount.net
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BIBLE STUDY “If God loves everyone, why did He hate Esau?”
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