The power of your past has been broken. Calvary has accomplished everything. As Christians, we stand in the greatest victory ever given to humanity. All our sins and past deeds have been forgiven!
Colossians 2:13-14 states, “And you being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He has made you alive together with Him, having forgiven all your trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, having nailed it to the cross.”
Your sins have been cleansed, and your past is now covered. If this is a reason to rejoice, it is even more remarkable to consider the words of Jeremiah 31:34: “For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
It is important to understand that God not only forgives but also chooses to forget your past.
This blog emphasizes that if God can choose to forget our past and no longer hold our sins against us, why can’t we do the same? Many believers today struggle with feelings of guilt, allowing past sins and failures to haunt them daily. They often find themselves replaying hurts and offenses as if on a loop. Our conversations tend to focus on our past actions rather than on the future we are called to pursue. To break free from this cycle, begin by acknowledging God’s forgiveness. Then, make a conscious effort to redirect your thoughts and conversations toward your future in Christ.
Proverbs 29:18 states, “Where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint.”
As believers, if we lack a prophetic revelation of our future, how can we possibly look forward and move beyond our past? A prophetic vision is a divine insight into the future that God grants us to guide our actions and decisions. Without this vision, we risk being stuck in our past and miss the new things God is doing in our lives.
Isaiah 43:18-19 states, “Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. 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 wilderness.” This is a promise of a new future, a future free from the burdens of the past. God is not bound by our past, and He is constantly creating new opportunities for us.
God has declared that your future is a supernatural event. This means that our future is not dictated by our past or present circumstances but by God’s power and grace. He will make way where there are none and provisions where all we see is lacking! This transformation occurs because all old things are now forgotten; the past fades away, and everything comes into view as new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 states, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.”
Isaiah 65:17 states, “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.”
God isn’t going to build your purpose on the brokenness of your past. He’s going to build your future as a whole new thing.
Our provisions aren’t old carnal things, but according to Ephesians 1:4, “We are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”
Instead of the old source, God will use a new supernatural source.
2 Peter 1:3-4 states, “As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him Who called us by glory and virtue.”
God’s not digging into the trash can of our past. Still, He’s pulling from the… “exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these we can be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” As God will create a new heaven and new earth, He will create you as a whole NEW vessel!
Ephesians 2:10 states, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
It’s reassuring to know that God had a plan for you and me since the foundation of the world. The fulfillment of this plan is not based on who we were but on who He envisions us to become. God sees us standing holy and blameless before Him, basking in His love (Ephesians 1:4). He predestined us to adoption as sons; Ephesians 1:5, and Romans 8:29-30 states, “For whom He foreknew He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, He also glorified.”
God has called you to be seated far above all principalities and powers. He has placed you with Him in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). We often hear about how God will pick up the pieces of our lives and put us back together. However, I want to believe that instead of reassembling the old, He provides brand new pieces shaped not by what was but out of the heavenly places and what is yet to come.
God has always seen your future, and it is a future created in and through Him.
So, it’s time to stop looking down. It’s time to stop looking at what was, and as Colossians 3:1-3 states, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
When Christ, who is our life, appears, we will also appear with Him in glory. In Luke 8:2-3, we read about a woman named Mary Magdalene, from whom Jesus cast out seven demons. Despite her troubled past, her future became a powerful example of forgiveness and purpose. Mary traveled with several women alongside Jesus, ministering to His needs and those of the twelve Apostles.
In John 20:11-16, she had the incredible honor of being the first person to see the resurrected Jesus. For this reason, she is often referred to as the “apostle to the apostles,” as she was the first to carry the message of His resurrection. Just imagine how much she would have missed if she had chosen to hide in the shadows, ashamed of her past. Jesus embraced her as a vital part of His team. Her past had no power over her future.
We must remember that if Jesus forgives and forgets, we should do the same. Returning to unforgiveness, offense, or past addictions can cost us everything we hope to achieve in our future.
In Genesis 19:17, Lot and his family were told to leave Sodom quickly and not look back. There will soon be nothing left, and the destruction will be so complete that to turn back would cost them their lives. In verse 26, we see that Lot’s wife did just that. Looking back to what was the past caused her to be turned into a pillar of salt. The brimstone that rained down on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah covered her as she hesitated.
In Luke 9:62, Jesus states, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Consider the leper who was healed: would he want to return to the camp and the inevitable death that awaited him simply because he felt unworthy of the healing Jesus had granted? What about the woman who was bent over for eighteen years and was instantly restored—would she go back to living in that condition out of guilt for others? And Lazarus, who was raised from the dead and freed from his grave clothes—would he return to the tomb from which he was delivered due to feelings of guilt over someone else? In all of these cases, the answer would be a resounding “NO!”
Sometimes, we may feel unworthy of the miracles that have taken place in our lives. Jesus sacrificed Himself to set us free. He paid the price, so why not embrace the gift He has given us and move forward? He saw our desperation and understood the attack of Hell on our lives. According to 1 John 3:8, He came to “destroy all the works of the devil.”
Romans 13:11 states, “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; (It’s time to put your past behind you truly); for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.”
In Philippians 3:12-13, Paul writes to the church, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of Me. (Out of his past as a murderer and a troublemaker of the church). Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do. Forgetting those things that are behind and reaching forward to those things that are ahead. I press toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Believers, it’s time to truly receive the forgiveness given us out of the Father’s whole love, grace, and abundant mercy. It’s time to put away the childish things of unforgiveness and offense. After all, our Lord willingly gave it all for us to restore us to sons and daughters of God. Let’s receive the gift wholeheartedly, give the devil a black eye, and run toward the high calling in Christ that each of us has graciously been given.
Blessings,
