Never A Prisoner

The prison of your past does not define your future. What you went through matters, and learn from it. God allows lessons without issuing life sentences. Pain can teach wisdom, but it should never become a chain. When you keep dragging yesterday into today, you limit what God wants to do next.

Choose to release the past. God heals by helping us reinterpret the past through grace. The memory may remain, but its power does not have to. Freedom begins when you agree with God that your story is still unfolding. What once wounded you can now strengthen you if you let God redeem it.

Philippians 3:13 (TLB) says, “I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead”. God calls you forward, not backwards. Live in that truth today.

Quote

Lessons shape us, prisons confine us.

Prayer

Lord, help me release the past and walk freely into Your future. Amen.

Action Point

Consciously let go of one past regret and give it to God today.

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(TLB) Scripture taken from The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

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