False Remedies

“There is surely a future hope for you,

    and your hope will not be cut off.”

Proverbs 23:18

There are many ways that people try to deal with their past.

We can ignore it.

That won’t get us very far because people, especially those closest to us, often like to remind us of our past.

We may be inclined to think we can just forget about it but that is not really sound advice either.

I think a favored way of dealing with it is to make excuses.

Maybe we genuinely were a victim of someone else’s cruelty but if we were once a victim we need not continue to be a victim to them or our past.

Trauma and loss are real and they cannot be ignored, forgotten or excused away.

The longer we fail to deal with it though, the greater the hold it will have on our future.

Perhaps you have heard this analogy used before but it is one that fits here – imagine trying to drive your car by only looking in your rear-view mirror.

That is what it is like trying to navigate the future why holding on to our past!

Commit today to no longer ignore, forget or excuse away the past.

Ask the Holy Spirit to help you as you step into tomorrow without the backpack of your past.