Letting Go of the Past

We sometimes get bogged down with the past.  Sometimes we blame our addictions on it.  We dwell on what we think someone did to us. We assume certain addictions cannot be reprogrammed on the basis that they were formed in the past.

We hold grudges and burn up our present, chasing the past, even though we know that we cannot change it.

When we blame the past for the present and use it as an excuse to not reprogram, we lose an opportunity to get rid of thought habits that are setting us up for unhappiness.

Each moment has its own circumstances.  Each moment is new, and we should allow each moment to arrive without shackles.  We need to learn to live in the moment.  This is not the same as living for the moment.  Living in the moment means that we let each moment possess its own blessings and we realize that at this very moment we have what we everything we need for the moment. 

There is no point fretting about what someone did or what happened to us.  The past is dead.  It is over.  It is not coming back. Our reality is our here and now.  The current moment. 

Paul, in an encouraging letter to an encouraging people, advises us (Philippians 3:13) to be “forgetting what lies behind”: it is back there in life and gets further back there the longer we live. 

It’s an even bigger issue.  Y’shuah says that if we look back, we aren’t fit for the Kingdom of God.  Read the 19^th chapter of Genesis and see what happened in verse 26 when someone looked back.  This isn’t about blaming the past, but it’s about clinging to it when it ought to have been let go.  

We need to live in the moment, not the past.