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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/14/13 - Letting Go of the Past

"So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" 2 Cor 5:16-17 NLT

One of the awesome truths about being in recovery and having a personal relationship with God is that we are literally new people. The problem is that many of us are still holding this new person hostage to our past. Whether it's us holding ourselves or allowing others to hold us hostage or even us holding someone else hostage we are still in a state of bondage to the past. We cannot say the past is behind of if it is still dictating our present. Too many of us have taken the text to mean that we should simply forget about it and "move on" but if it is still shaping our choices, relationships and circumstances today then have we really forgotten about it? Have we really moved on? Have we really let it go?

The answer to embracing the "new" us is to confront the "old" us because we can't begin to live the new life until we deal with the old one. The purpose of inventorying ourselves is to confront the past so we can find freedom in the present, and while God will do most of the heavy lifting in helping us get through it we have a part to play in becoming this new person. Finally we must also understand that the we're not just confronting what we did, but why we did it and how it affected us. In reality the why and how are much more important than the what because our freedom lies in the why and how. God is trying to help us understand and accept our past. Once we understand our past and how it has shaped us only than can we truly accept it, let it go and find our freedom. Then we can finally embrace this new person we are becoming.

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