BUILDING YOU FOR THE FUTURE

I will like to start by saying that every experience we had,from the moment we were born until now (and even while we were in our mother’s womb) has made us what we are today. The things that happened to us, especially during our earliest years, determine how we’ll act (and react) for the rest of our lifes.

            That’s what Jesus meant when He said, “good man gives out good from the goodness stored in his heart; and a bad man gives out evil from his store of evil.” (Matthew 12:25, Phillips) There are things stored up in each of us that must be dealt with before we can move ahead successfully.

Two thousand years ago the apostle Paul wrote, “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching unto those things which are before…” Philippians 3:13. Paul understood that forgetting and reaching are the keys to inner healing. They both work together because forgetting closes the door on the past; reaching opens the door to the future.

Some people might say, “What did Paul have to forget?” Plenty! On his orders, Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was stoned to death and he watched the whole gruesome scene. Could you forget that? Listen to his testimony, “…I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it” (Galatians 1:13 KJV).  While Christians slept, Saul of Taurus and his zealots would break down their door, and, oblivious to the cries of children, take some parents to prison, and others to the chopping block. But now he goes to those same towns to preach and when he stands in the pulpit, guess who’s sitting in the pews? The widows! The orphans! If Paul had not learned how to deal with his own past, he’d never have written one of the thirteen bestsellers we now call the “epistles” and founded a church that would last for two thousand years. Watch out for the next post and be inspired..!!