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See if this quote sums up what you believe for this past year and the new year.
A well-known preacher in the 1800s wrote, “We have passed through one more year. One more long stage in the journey of life, with its ascents and descents and dust and mud and rocks and thorns and burdens that wear the shoulders, is done. The old year is dead. Roll it away. Let it go. God, in His providence, has brought us out of it. It is gone;…its evil is gone; its good remains. The evil has perished, and the good survives.”
There’s so much in there that describes what may have happened to you in the past. The hurt. The pain. The need you face. The challenges. Disappointment and struggle. But the old is dead. Roll it away. It’s time to let go and go on! Go on to what God has for you.
You don’t want anything to impede you from running the race He has set for your future days. There’s too much good that awaits you.
You may have a hard time believing that “good awaits me.” But don’t ruin it or ignore it by going back and hanging onto what you’ve been through.
As Hebrews 12:1 tells us, we are to strip off and throw aside every unnecessary weight so we can continue with patient endurance and be steady and persistent to run the race that is set before us. We turn away from what will distract us so we can keep our eyes on the Lord.
Listen to how strong those words are that are used there. Strip off. Throw aside. That means to take away the unnecessary weight completely. You deprive it of its power to do anything to you. It can no longer encumber you. Weigh you down. You’re up and running. You’re letting go of those things that cannot help you and you’re going on to what God has before you.
Yet, there’s no doubt that sometimes that can be difficult to do. I don’t know why it is, but many times our tendency is to hang onto the way things are. We keep going back and rethinking it, feeling it again. It’s almost as if we think that if we can hang onto this, and go through it again and again, somehow we will be able to change what is happening.
But God’s Word is, “Don’t go back.” We must let go and go on, so He can show us the new race we are to run. It’s the race that will result in good victories and His will being done in our life.
How many times have you had something happen and it seemed to destroy what you were trying to do. You may feel that you’ve been through so much, especially over this last year; I can relate to you. It’s hard not to hang onto it. I mean after all, it’s so big in your life. But with God’s help, you can get past it. Let go and go on.
See all the good things your future has for you. Run the race God has ordained so you can enter into and experience the victories that are waiting for you to win.
You’re ready to move forward into what God has for you to do and receive. You toss aside every torment or difficulty or challenge that would pull you down. You’re going to run your race and go into all the good that is waiting for you this coming year.
Spiritual Powerline to say out loud:
“I’M GOING INTO ALL THE GOOD GOD HAS FOR ME!”
Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:
Father, I will not hold onto the unpleasant and disappointing events that have happened. I roll those away and instead I embrace the good days You have planned for me this coming year. I have victories ahead. I have happiness and fulfillment and joy. I will make it through every challenge with the power You have placed within me. I’m getting ready for the good that awaits me. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
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