There have been many songs that were written that related to looking back to your past. For example, the song “The Way We Where” by Memory, Stevie Wonder’s “I wish,” Earth, Wind, & Fire’s “September.” There is a fixation with our past. I’ve even written a song called “As I Look Back Over.” Yes, even I have looked back over the memory of my past, some moments favorable and others not so much. I really believe that spending to much time dwelling on your past can and will bind your future.
Philippians 3:13-15
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
There are many things that can keep you bound to your past, but there are 7 major things that can make your past your future:
- Sexual Emotional Attachments
- Pain of Unforgiveness
- Broken Heart
- Unfinished business (Good or bad) /Closure
- Pridefulness
- Jealousy/hatred of other achievements
- Unforgiven Hidden or secret sins of the past
One must understand that these 7 things can and will defeat your hopes, dreams, passions, and your growth in anything you desire to do in your future. Some of us tend to wonder why our lives seem like they’re stuck in neutral and in some cases in reverse. If you would just check to see if you are bound by any of these 7 major thing in your life, this just might be the cause. Sometimes we need to press pause on our life and begin to reevaluate ourselves and check life before we wreck it or our futures.
2 Corinthians 13:4-7
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
Even when taking communion, I tell everyone to examine themselves before they take it to clear up any miss givings that may be in their hearts or minds so that they want take it unworthily.
1 Corinthians 11:28-32
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are
judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
In conclusion, read Psalms 103:1-13
A PSALM OF DAVID.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul:
and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;
so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD executeth righteousness
and judgment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses,
his acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide:
neither will he keep his anger for ever.
10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins;
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth,
so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.