October 29, 2019
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you today, is from the book of Isaiah 43: 18, “Do not remember the former things. Nor consider the things of old.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we understand that God does not want the people of Israel to remember the former things. Although their former deliverance out of Egypt was the most glorious work, which they ought to remember always and consider. But God did not want them to remember their captivity in Babylon for nearly seventy years.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, the Babylonian exile was a period in the history of ancient Israel. The Babylonian captivity and the seventy year captivity of the Jews have become important in the Jewish History. The majority of the Jewish people were eventually exiled to Babylon. And were kept in captivity there for a number of decades.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God does not want His people to remember their captivity, pain agony, and also their tribulation that they endured during the period of Exile. God is telling prophet Isaiah “Do not call to mind the former things or ponder things of the past. He is literally saying that we are to receive God’s forgiveness. And look ahead to our future.”
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, We all have a past and some things are not, so good. Therefore we need to ask God for forgiveness, learn from our past mistakes and make amends if at all possible with the one we hurt and look forward to the new things the Lord will do in our lives. The Bible shows how God used the least likely people to do some of the most amazing things for Him. If God used people like king David, who was an ordinary shepherd boy, why not us?
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Jesus died on the cross for you and me. And once we believe Him as our saviour, we are new creatures, in Him. Apostle Paul says, “I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God. ”
Therefore My Dear Brothers and Sisters, fix your eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. May God help you to release all your past memories, that keep worrying or troubling you and disturbs your peace, and harmony.
God does not, want you to go through life, looking in the rear view mirror. It’s time for you to look ahead and focus on what is before us. God wants to do a new thing in our lives. He wants us to rise up to our full potential in Him. The Lord has called us to do mighty things, for He will make a road way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Therefore we need to keep on moving forward. It is only in moving forward that we accomplish what God has called us to do. We cannot stay where we are, nor can we go backward. The only direction we can go is forward. So let’s move on and keep our eyes focused on God and grow. God bless you.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, we thank you for this blessed day. Lord we thank you for reminding us that we should not remember the past and brood over the bad happenings, but move on forward. Help us to be focused on the goals that is set before us. Make us to realize the responsibility that God has given for us and thus fulfil the plan and purpose of God in our lives.
In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
