Learn from the past...don't live it again

 A lot of people who seem to be in the present are living in the past.

guilty as charged.... no one is perfect.

 They have not opened up their eyes to see, nor their ears to hear, or their hearts to understand. They  rely on old motives of the past, they linger on old fantasies, the past is what they live, they know neither present, the future is far from their reach.

This blog is an ode to those who never got a chance to understand others, those who failed to move on to the future, those who only lingered on with.... "oh I miss the old times. ." "Why were the old days better than these? In Ecclesiastes chapter 7:10, the bible says it's not wise to ask such questions." Time is a factor that waits for no one.
We age as time moves on, depends on how you took care of yourself, you might be surprised to find some wrinkles, or a couple of stretchmarks. In the same way, we age in our motives, our way of thinking. Every year, there's something in us that changes in us. We weren't made to live in the past.

 Living in the past is unhealthy .
We have to find the means to move forward. The will, strength& courage to move forward. It's never an easy task.
I had to learn to move forward with my life, when people had bruised me. I remember a time when I used to sulk over the wrongs that people had done to me. I often found myself reminiscing how the situation would have been if i had not been at that place &at that time. But it was the past,

Whatever emotional rollercoaster, I rode on, eventually I would have to get off. But I would take days at a time, sulking, and crying over.... NOT TWO! NOT THREE! But crying over One situation at a time, dwelling over one thing. I slept it, breathe it, consumed by it. I wasn't able to see what God wanted to do. I was unable to see the healing, he wanted to bring. The void that he wanted to fill. He wanted to give me a new joy. Matthew 11:29. But my flesh got stuck in the past. My Spirit was looking forward, while my flesh kept looking back.
Never get to the point, where you're heart has closed off to love others. Being hurt is an inevitable part of life. How will you know the value of guarding your heart, if youve never been hurt?

Today, look on the future. No more sulking...crying over a man that broke you five years ago. Or over a woman that left with a piece of your heart, or whoever it is that messed with you.. Take back your heart. Take back yourself, and demand a 7 fold restoration. You are still as valuable. You might have gotten wrinkled, your edges broken off, you probably look dry, barely able to stand. it may look like, you have no value. But you are still as valuable as ever to God.

Just look on and behold. He is always doing something new. Isaiah 43:19. "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?...." Let's step into this new season. It will be not be an easy task, we only have so much past to move on from.

One day at a time. The past is to only to be learned from. It's not meant to be lived over again.
Move first to the future. Open your eyes and ears to hear others. What you knew about so and so probably has changed. Don't get hung up on someone else's past either..
With all that being said...