When we allow ourselves to think on the past, we often become depressed or go in the way of destruction. We cannot go forward if we linger in the past memories.
The apostle Paul said to the church:
Philippians 3:12-15 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, 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. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded:
We cannot dwell in the past and go forward with God.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
We must learn to live in the current season.
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