Put your past behind you.

2 Cor 5:17 NIV - If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come.

(18 Jan 2009) When the Holy Spirit moved into my life, my old ways began to fall away like dead leaves falling off a tree in Autumn. But for many years I apologized to the Lord for who I used to be. My life before the Holy Spirit was childish, immature, and selfish! One day when I was praying this way, the Lord said . . .

I don't want to hear any more of this.

In the eyes of the world I was a success, but inside I was a mess!

You're no different from anyone else.

But that doesn't excuse my bad behavior.

That was your past life. Put it behind you. If it were not for that, you would have no testimony.

I didn't know how to agape love. I didn't know how to forgive. I lived by my feelings instead of by Your Word. I was self-centered. I was clueless about what was really important. Everything I did was done out of fear and wrong motives!

That's all the darkness knows how to do. Now that you've seen the light, you need to be different. From now on, I want to see a smile on your face!