Don't be a Pitiful Mess of Anger, Hate and Jealousy, The Solution

I don't have those "what if " moments of peering back into the past to yearn for what might have been, because God said, "leaving what is behind to press on toward the goal."

My husband and I were talking about it this morning. Looking back is of no value at all except to learn lessons not to repeat.

If we have learned those lessons it is silly to pretend what could have been when there is no possibility of changing it.

When we are always looking back we cannot enjoy the present while focusing on God's promises for the future. Looking back steals the joy of Christ.

Having met many people who spend a lot of time talking about their childhood or school years as their "glory years" I realized that perhaps these people have had a sad life over the years or they would have new stories to share.

It is best to focus on today and its challenges and gifts from God, this way we do not waste precious time in useless imaginings or fantasies.

Also, is it possible that looking back in regret or even with fondness takes from us the gratefulness of today.

I have looked back only to praise God more for what He has brought me through, however there is no sense that I would ever want to go back to those times and relive them.

Philippians 3:13
"13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,"

Every time in our life brings lessons, important lessons that either make us a better person or make us bitter. We can choose to allow life experiences to change us into the image of God or we can choose to allow them to break us into pitiful people full of anger and self involvement.

Don't be a pitiful shriveled mess of anger, hate and jealousy, confess your sinfulness before God and allow Him to change you into a new creation, full of hope and joy.

2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"