“For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.”
When I think of my past I tend to only dwell on the negative yesterdays. What about you? Are your yesterdays painful, do they make you anxious? Even though we have reconciled our past mistakes to God it can be difficult to live with some of the fallout of those past decisions here in the present. How are you dealing with that on a day-to-day basis? Have you left the irrevocable past in God’s hands and escaped the anxiety of those mistakes or do you continue to allow your past to influence your present and future?
God forgives us without question or hesitation, but we also have to forgive ourselves. As we turn our yesterdays over to God we must become emotionless to their lasting repercussions on our present life. Owning up to our past mistakes is difficult but it is necessary. God promises to forgive us of our sin, not to remove us from the responsibility of our sin. Those reminders do not have to bring us anxiety, they can bring us hope … being reminded of our yesterdays is God’s protection for us from a very shallow security in the present.
“Anxiety in a mans heart weighs him down, but a good work makes him glad.”
Our yesterdays can be a compilation of broken and irreversible things and represent opportunities we wasted and expose hurts and betrayals but God can transform your destructive past and anxieties into constructive thoughtfulness for today and tomorrow.
As you trust God and draw nearer to Him it will become easier to deal with your yesterdays. Your yesterdays will begin to lose their sting as your understand how they are shaping your todays and your tomorrows, making your walk with God stronger.
Be Lifted by your Yesterdays, whether they are good or bad, because God has you now. He goes before you and He is your rear guard.