[Faith-talk] FW: [thefamilyoffaith] Life in the Backwards Seat - Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

Thu Apr 26 15:33:55 UTC 2012

I agree with this, right here!

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Subject: [thefamilyoffaith] Life in the Backwards Seat -  Ron Hutchcraft
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Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:29:56 -0400

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries Blog

              You don't have to keep looking back at where you've already
been.
            It's all about looking at where you're going now.    

                  Life in the Backwards Seat    

             Our grandson's gaining weight, and is he ever going to be
glad! (Unlike his grandfather who finds weight gain depressing). Yes, soon
he will be 20 pounds. And that means his parents will turn his car seat
around. No more looking out the rear window.
            And that's a great feeling. You don't have to keep looking
back at where you've already been. It's all about looking at where you're
going now.
            That's a change that's good news for even us grown up kids.
Turning your "seat" around. Moving past the depressing view you get when
you keep looking back at where you've been. Especially when what you see is
the hits, the hurts and the hard times in your past. Every time I look
through that window, clouds roll in and cover the sun. If I look back a
lot, I'll end up looking down even more.
            I flew to a meeting recently and had that same predictable
experience at baggage claim. No, not a missing suitcase - I'm talking about
the mystery suitcase. The one that just keeps going round and round on the
baggage carousel, forever unclaimed. We just keep watching the same old
baggage go by again and again.
            Sadly, too many folks live their life that way - watching
that same old baggage over and over again. And triggering those
all-too-familiar - and often disabling - feelings of resentment, anger,
depression, "poor me," and victim-itis.
            Recently, my wife and I were talking with a woman who's been
hurt and wounded a lot - and as she rehearsed it, we could watch her wilt
visibly. I had to share with her a bold and hopeful alternative from the
Bible - one I've fallen back on so many times. It's a "catch me, I'm
falling" prescription for us when the old baggage circles back on our
radar.
            God says, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the
past. See, I am doing a new thing! It is springing up before you. Do you
not perceive it?" (Isaiah 43:18-19). "Dwell." Interesting word. Don't live
in, camp out on, and stay in what happened in the past. The enemy of my
soul, the devil, loves to have me living in the past - because it can't be
changed. And dwelling on what can't be changed equals despair.
            While our enemy keeps pointing backwards, our Savior keeps
pointing to what's ahead. "I'm doing a new thing." But those who insist on
rehashing the old things will be looking the wrong way and miss God's new
thing.
            God doesn't ask us to deny our past. But He tells us we don't
have to be defined by our past. He invites us to release all the hurts -
and all the hurters - to Him. To leave justice and payback to Him. To open
up the darkest locked closets of your past, to drag all that's ugly there
into the light and to face it once and for all - with Jesus standing there
by your side. And then let the healing begin.
            For two thousand years, wounded people have found Jesus to be
the Lord of New Beginnings. First, He makes us a "new creation in Christ"
(2 Corinthians 5:17) - with rewired desires, self-worth, hopes and a
passion to live pure. He says, "The old has gone; a new life has begun."
That's the rebirth miracle He made possible by dying to cancel and forgive
every sin ever committed - including mine.
             Jesus forgives what no one else can forgive and heals what
no one else can heal. With Jesus running things, your life becomes what
He's going to do for you and through you - rather than what others have
done to you.
            You really can turn your seat around. It's much better to see
where you're going than where you've already been. Just ask my grandson.

                  You may be at a point where you're ready for a new
beginning - where the hurts and failures of the past no longer define who
you are. That's when it's time for Jesus. If you'd like to know more about
how to begin a rebirthing relationship with Him, I encourage you to visit
us at YoursForLife.net. It's a hope place. 

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