Most people stop moving forward when they get tired. They stop being happy when life hurts. When you are always looking back, you become focused on what didn’t work out, on who hurt you, and on the mistakes, you’ve made, such as:
“If only I’d gone to the university.”
“If only I’d spent more time with my children.”
“If only I’d been raised in a better environment.”
As long as you’re living in regret, focused on the negative things of the past, you won’t move ahead to the bright future
God has in store. You need to let go of what didn’t work out.
Let go of your hurts and pains. Let go of your mistakes and failures.
You can’t do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now. Whether it happened twenty minutes ago or twenty years ago, let go of the hurts and failures and move forward. If you keep bringing the negative baggage from yesterday into today, your future will be poisoned.
You can’t change what’s happened to you. You may have had an unfair past, but you don’t have to have an unfair future.
You may have had a rough start, but it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
Don’t let a hurtful relationship sour your life. Don’t let a bad break, a betrayal, a divorce, loss of a child or a bad childhood cause you to settle for less in life. Move forward and God will pay you back. Move forward and God will avenge you. Move forward and you’ll come into a new beginning.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Nothing that’s happened to you is a surprise to God. The loss of a loved one didn’t catch God off guard. God’s plan for your life did not end just because your business didn’t make it, or a relationship failed, or you had a difficult child.
Here’s the question: Will you become stuck and bitter, fall into self-pity, blame others, and let the past poison your
future? Or will you shake it off and move forward, knowing your best days are still ahead?
Where you’re going is a lot more important than where you’ve been. Shake it off and move forward!