THE PAST MUST BE LEFT THERE — IT DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE
How often we carry yesterday like a heavy cloak, letting it drape over our shoulders and weigh down our hearts. Memories of mistakes, regrets, missed opportunities, or the sharp sting of words spoken against us—these shadows have a way of whispering that we are still trapped there. Yet the truth of the Gospel is that the past is gone. It doesn’t exist anymore. The moment has passed, the hour has faded, and the day is done. Our Lord calls us not to linger in what has been, but to step forward in the grace He provides today.
Paul wrote with urgent clarity, “Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13-14). Here is the freedom of the believer: the past cannot claim us unless we allow it to. Each day Christ rises anew within us, offering forgiveness where we once felt guilt, healing where there was pain, and purpose where we once saw only emptiness. The past is a shadow, but Christ is the light that walks with us into each new moment.
To hold on to yesterday is to bind our hands and blind our eyes. But to let it go is to taste resurrection in the soul—to see that every sorrow has a limit, every regret a conclusion, and every failure a lesson etched by the hand of God. Even our mistakes can serve His glory, not by keeping us in chains, but by teaching us to cling more tightly to the Savior who makes all things new.
Today is not yesterday. Today is the canvas on which God paints His mercy. Let the past rest where it belongs, beneath the cross where Jesus bore it for you. Step forward with courage, leaving behind the ashes of what was, and walk into the newness He offers. In Him, every tomorrow is untainted, unburdened, and alive with His promise.
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Lord, help me to release the weight of yesterday. Teach me to leave my regrets and failures at the foot of Your cross, and to walk boldly into the life You have for me today. May my heart be free, my spirit light, and my eyes fixed on You alone. Amen.
BDD
