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Do not despair! The Lord loves you more than you can imagine.
Dealing With the Past
Your sins I remember no more. Isaiah 43:25
One of the worst things that can ruin my tennis game—and it doesn’t take much—is fretting about my last bad shot. The best players I know forget the mistake, put it away and prepare for the next point. There’s a life lesson here I need to learn. If your mind is occupied with thoughts about something you can’t do anything about, you are wasting a lot of time and energy on something that can’t change instead of working on the things you can change.
God is over our past transgressions. We should no longer concern ourselves with those sins. When we have been forgiven, we should make every effort not to repeat those sins, but they are gone. God makes this promise to us. God wants us to do better, to grow in love and mercy. Looking backward won’t help. What an enormously generous gift from God.
Paul Pennick