This was a line I heard on ESPN radio coming into church
today.
So much truth behind this.
If you want to do something in the future you can’t focus
just on the past.
It's like wearing your varsity jacket years after graduating high school, nobody cares about what happened in your high school.
Sorry if you just found this out.
Does this mean the past doesn’t matter?
No.
I would say the past does matter.
There is a line, “When you forget the past you are destined
to repeat it.”
If we don’t learn from the past we could make those same
mistakes again.
Our church has been going through the Bible in a Year
program as an entire Church.
This is usually the time when people that make this
commitment give up on it.
It can be hard to learn from something you don’t understand
and quit.
There is benefit behind studying this.
Paul knew this and he was able to sum up over 1,000 years in
about 12 paragraphs in Acts 13:13-52.
He sums up going into slavery in Egypt and continues on to
sum up the entire Bible until his time.
If you have never read the Bible, check this several chapter
out for a little history.
This is pretty impressive.
One of the lines I love through this section is verses
39-40…
“There, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus
the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could
not be justified from by the law of Moses.”
Paul is talking to some people that know this history and
others have no clue on the history of the world and the Bible.
He focuses on this part Jesus is the reason sins are
forgiven.
I am guilty.
I am a sinner.
Anybody who knows me for longer than five minutes knows that
I am a guilty sinner.
We all are.
Yet through Jesus and only through Jesus are sins are
forgiven.
People grasp this section of scripture and comeback to Paul
to hear more.
Many gave their lives to Christ.
Someone died for you.
They didn’t deserve it and face one of the worst deaths
imaginable just for you, your sins and mistakes.
Jesus loves you.
He cares for you and wants you to have eternal life.
Life doesn’t end on earth.
It does go on for eternity.
The choice of where you get to spend eternity is up to you
and your faith in Jesus or not.
There is no other way to heaven other than through Jesus.
I thank God for giving up his sons life for a sinner like
me.
How about you?
You can’t focus on the past to be the future.
You can’t live in the past, but you can live on in the
future.
Where do you want to live past this earthly life?
Have a great day.
