Letting Go of the Past

Letting Go of the Past

As I look back through the years there are most definitely choices and decisions that I have made that have a lasting effect and consequences.  Some some for the good and others I wish would have never happened.  There are three areas of each of our lives that we all look upon. We all live in the present. We all memories, good and bad some indifferent. We all have a future.

King David is declared to be a man after God's own heart and yet King David in a moment, when he should have been in battle with his men, yield to his fleshly desires and committed adultery with another mans wife.  Not just any man but one of his own mighty men of valour.  This one decision triggered a series of decision King David would later be found in Psalm 51 repenting of.  There were very heavy consequences that effected not only King David but his whole family.  The result of this illicit sexual affair was, as is in every case of adultery, catastrophic! In king David's case it led to deception, murder, rape and civil war; problems which plagued the household of David's family and his kingdom for centuries. But this morning my desire is to share with you the HOPE we have in Jesus. It is when we take the 'DUNG' of our past and give it to the Lord in repentance, confession to God through Jesus, God takes the DUNG PILE of our past and gives us beauty of ashes.(Isaiah 61:3)  You see it is in the ashes of our lives that God takes them and makes them into fertile soil for His will to be done in our lives.  It is in that soil that we become fruitful for the Kingdom of God. 
When King David repented of his Sin in Psalm 51, it was there that God took the ashes of King Davids life and David, according to the scripture, still fulfilled all that God had planned for him.  David was a man after Gods own heart. 
Let me say, this is not an approval for our sin.  This is the Great grace of God and his mercies that are new every morning that make it possible for us to still fulfill the call of God on our lives.  Even when others won't let go of your past, God still will and can use you to fulfill all His will in your life.  Today take King David's posture of repentance and let God have the 'DUNG PILE' of your life and turn your ashes into His beauty in your life.