We have a choice regarding the past; knowing that it has shaped us in various ways, holding on to the good and letting go of the bad. Or we can let it shape our total impression of the future and be drug down with our baggage.
18 “Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:18-19 NKJV)
I know that I am making a simple statement that is often very hard for some to really deal with. There comes into everyone’s life issues with our past that can be very hurtful. We can let that hurt totally shape how we see and deal with everything.
I think about the things that still, at times, haunt my dreams (or nightmares). Things from my past that have obviously had a deep impact upon my subconscious. I can rationally let them go, but scars like that tend to resurface when we do not expect. I choose when they do to simply turn it over to God. Only He can truly fix me and I have trust that either He will or that He has reasons for how that brokenness shapes my future.
Reflect on: The psychological scars from your past and how you are dealing with them. Is God the focus when they come to haunt?
