Don't Look Back

How many of us who are saved, have looked back while walking with Christ at our old worldly ways, and have found themselves missing their sinful life? I admit that I have a number of times. I think what I missed the most was doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. I remember thinking to myself that my old lifestyle meant freedom, compared to living as a Christian where I felt I couldn't do anything that I wanted to, without being judged for it. But the reality is, I was lacking wisdom and was some what immature, not realising that my Old lifestyle had me in Bondage to death.

Romans 6: 6-7 says "Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin".

                          7. "For he who has died has been freed from sin".

Romans 9:10 says   "For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life that He lives, He lives for God.

These Scriptures show us that our old sinful lives died on the cross with Christ. We are no longer slaves to our old ways, and we have been freed from the bondages of sin though our Lord Jesus. When we look backwards, although we are free in Christ, it can prevent us from moving forward. Jesus set the example by living for God, for us to copy his example we must move forward and let go of our past.

Luke 9: 61-62 says  "And another also said, Lord, I will follow you, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house".

                       62.    But Jesus said to him,"No one, having put his hand to the plow,and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God".

When we gave our lives to the Lord, we died to our old selves and became new in Christ. For us as believers, there is no looking back. What was is no longer.

Romans 6:21  "What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death"

As a Sinner, everything I did was leading me to death, of which I have felt shame for. But as a Believer in Christ, I have been cleaned and set free through the Blood of Jesus. So why look back at a life that bared no fruit? As Christians we are to be a decisive people. The decision to receive Eternal Life through Jesus Christ and serve the Lord is our first, but we also need to decide whether we look forward or whether we slow down our progress by looking backwards.

Galatians 5:1   "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage".

As enticing as it can be at times to do what we used to do, we all need to remind ourselves that we have been set free. Freedom for us is moving forward in God and learning to live righteously. Dwelling on the past only pulls us back into Bondage and hampers our walk with Christ.

Let's all Celebrate having Freedom in Christ and enjoy the Truth about our inheritance, ETERNAL LIFE.

God Bless yall