A NEW START

We are a people with a future-not spiritual nomads or wanderers,but a people with purpose and destiny.The past is over the future stretches out before us full of promise and purpose.
We are changed people-new people. Not avoiding decisions that must be made,nor running from responsibility because of mistakes and failures from the past,we look toward a future based on a newness of heart created in us by Christ Jesus,
No longer haunted by the past,we are free to choose-to make new commitments and follow new directions.In our freedom,we set new standards and find new strength by which to live. Experience gives wisdom,God gives a new heart. Our past mistakes have taught us some valuable lessons,but God has given us a new life.
We know God is faithful to his promise in Jeremiah 3:22" Return faithless people,I will cure you of backsliding". And we have responded:"Yes,we will come to you, for you are the Lord our God".What a relief ! to know that we have a God who forgives-to know that we have a God who understands, and who will heal and help us.He will teach us His ways,he will make us more like him-self,he will lead us in the right direction. He says,"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely,for my anger has turned away from them" (Hosea 14):. And if that isn't enough ,he adds these words,"Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more" (Hebrew 10:17).
What a loving,compassionate God we serve ! Society may expect us to walk in guilt and shame indefinitely, but we no longer conform to what the world says. We have been transformed ! our minds have been renewed by God's Word and our hearts by his mercy. Our lives are changed by his love. No longer bounded by guilt,no longer chained to our past and its shame.
WE ARE FREE