I am more than my past.
It’s hard sometimes as I walk out my Faith, because I know who I am. Every shortcoming, every failure, every past mistake sits right there on my shoulder and screams for attention. I tell myself that this is the way I am, that I am the sum total of what happened, or did not happen, to me as a child.
Certainly, my childhood did have a hand in shaping me…the way I think, the way I react, the way I talk, but…is that all that I have to look forward to? Don’t get me wrong, there is value in understanding who I am and where I came from, but should my past confine me to certain patterns or repeated behaviors for the rest of my life?
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17…”Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new.”
My past does not define me.
And that gives me hope.
Because living in the past isn’t where I want to be, and it isn’t where I want to stay. And with God, I have the hope that one day those behaviors or personality quirks that I struggle with, well, they’ll be gone, because in Christ, I am new.
And because of Christ, my past is not my future.
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