As Melvin Fish said in a book called “Unconditional
Love”: “The past has no value except for what we can learn from it.” If we did something in the past that we
regret, all we can do is to change our course for the future by learning from
the past. Beating ourselves up about the
past has no value. Guilt has no value for
good except to motivate us to change our present course. I think in my past my guilt and regret kept
me in my pit. It was over-board because
I wasn’t trusting in the Savoir to be able to reach all the way down in my pit
to save me. Since the past ‘inventory of
sins’ I have no more of this guilt or regret.
It truly has been swept away.
Jesus Christ’s atonement has truly removed the stains of my past that
they bring me no more pain. I have a
deep commitment in the present moment to ‘keep my sword bright’ and never fall
away from Him again, but sin will come because I am not perfect. All I can do is learn from the past and look
to God that I might live.
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