Let Go of the Past, but Don't Let Go of God

Your past is chasing you.

The failures of your past want to flog you

The disappointments want to dig a hole and bury you

The pain wants to punish you

The shame wants to sh

The lust wants to lure your

Depression wants to define you

Your past is calling you and chasing you, but it’s really not your past. It’s the demons that came from your past. Your enemy actually fears what God will do with you, so they are trying so hard to keep you from learning your identity in Christ and walking in it.

They want you to walk in the old you. They want you to focus on what other’s aren’t doing for you. They want you to focus on the pain so you don’t give it to God and let Him heal you of it.

They do not want you to let go of your past. Even more so, they don’t want you to give your past to God and let Him use it to help others.

Daniel 1:1–9 NKJV

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god. Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king’s descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans. And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king’s delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king. Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. To them the chief of the eunuchs gave names: he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.

Things weren’t like they used to be.