New start

Don't bring yesterday into today!

Hebrews 8:12 AMPC

For I will be merciful and gracious toward their sins and I will remember their deeds of unrighteousness no more.

Being reminded of our past failures and regrets will poison today.

Be like God, who deliberately makes up His mind not to remember.

Psalm 103:3,12 AMPC

Who forgives [every one of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your diseases, [12] As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

It's time to build up others and not lick old wounds:

Psalm 48:13 AMPC

Consider well her ramparts, go through her palaces and citadels, that you may tell the next generation [and cease recalling disappointments].

Whether it be a sin (confessed and dealt with) or some failure or disappointment - Satan will try to get us fixated on it.

He wants to anchor us to our past - to keep accusing and condemning and suppressing!

If the apostle Paul had listened to the accuser, he would never witnessed about Jesus, bringing the gospel to the then known world.

No, he lived in the new start given to him through Jesus' forgiveness.

Even though he had previously pursued and persecuted Christians to death, he lived in his new start.

So can you and I!

2 Corinthians 5:17 AMPC

Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!