Hey Church!
I hope you've had a great week with this absolutely gorgeous weather. I'm excited about concluding our series "Sorry Not Sorry" this Sunday. We've talked a lot the last few weeks about the repentance that goes on deep in our heart. For sure, that's where it starts. This week, we'll close out our series by talking about what that repentance looks like on the outside. I hope to see you there as we discover how true repentance looks in our everyday lives.
Thought for the Week
"But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead." Philippians 3:13
My family doesn't have a lot of TV shows that we regularly watch. We're a little too busy for that. But, we do have one show: The Flash. The Flash was my favorite superhero growing up and my boys love him, too. We just started season 3. As the show has progressed, there has been a lot more time travel involved, and The Flash has learned that going back and trying to 'fix' tragic events doesn't really 'fix' anything. In fact, it messes everything up. The past makes us all who we are, and if we were to change it, well, we wouldn't be us. A lot of people do emotional and mental time travel. They constantly focus on the things they did wrong, they live in the past, dwell on mistakes, and live with the guilt of how it went wrong. Sometimes we even try to over-correct for our past. It never works. Everything from the past brought you here, to this moment. You can't change it. We can move forward with God. What is ahead is a life God has planned for you that you could never imagine, but you can't dwell on what was. Embrace what could be. Perhaps your struggle with addiction will be a testimony to help other addicts. Perhaps your mistake as a teenager will help other teenagers. Perhaps your mistakes in a first marriage will help others in young marriages or even you in a future marriage. Perhaps you learned some lessons others can learn through you. Perhaps God wants to leverage who you have become to be all you can be. Don't look back. Forget it. God has. You're forgiven if you have sought forgiveness in Christ. Move forward. Don't let yesterday drag you down. God has too many plans for you tomorrow. But you can live them if you're constantly traveling back in time to try and fix a past that God's has already forgotten.
Because of Jesus,
Carter
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