Contrary to what some believe, no one in the world has the power to change the past. In fact, most physicists agree that you cannot change the present by going back to the past.

In Philippians 3:12-14, Paul said this about leaving the past behind and pressing towards the goal, “I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it,d but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.”

Paul knew that some ‘people’ and the ‘enemy’ will use past guilt, shame, anger, regret, and disappointment to keep us cleaving to our past, so as to neglect and impeded the power and promises of God from manifesting in our present. The present is the moment in which God gives us His infallible, limitless, and incomprehensible grace so that we can successfully accomplish His will, plan, and purpose.

Undoubtedly, the past is left to the undeserved mercy of God and the future to His divine providence. My dear brothers and sisters, Isaiah 43:18-19 also reminds us to, “Forget the things that happened in the past and do not keep on thinking about them because God is about to do a new thing.” So today, let us all choose to earnestly let go of what can’t be undone (Past) and fervently focus our time, energy, and talents on what can be done (Present). Like Paul, let us all “press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us!”

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