Have you ever made a mistake in the past, that you believe you are suffering from today? If so, it’s time to move on!
The truth is, we are not living in the past. We are living in the present. What happened yesterday in a material past does not affect what you can demonstrate today in your spiritual present.
You and God are one. God gives you everything you need to prosper, to stay healthy, to live in abundance, and to progress. Here and now!
A mistake in the past does not limit you from being successful today.
The past doesn’t govern the present. God governs the present!
So, look back no more. Release regret about yesterday and focus on demonstrating your truth today. God is your Truth, not the past. And God is good.
You have boundless good to be embracing, living and expressing. Be about it. The quicker the better!
Many years ago, when I did not realise the cosequences and through great fear, I did something I bitterly regret. I have dragged this behind me for 40 years. Guilt, regret and all rhe other negative feelings. I knew nothing about CS then (wish I had) because I probably would have made a different choice. I have tried to forgive myself but there is always a little residue of sadness and sorrow. Thank you Evan for your words, like balm on an open wound. xx
Thank you for your heartfelt sharing♥️
Many years ago, when I did not realise the cosequences and through great fear, I did something I bitterly regret. I have dragged this behind me for 40 years. Guilt, regret and all other negative feelings. I knew nothing about CS then (wish I had) because I probably would have made a different choice. I have tried to forgive myself but there is always a little residue of sadness and sorrow. Thank you Evan for your words, like balm on an open wound. xx
God holds His hand out to you in love. I believe the moment you take it, all guilt and recrimination is spirited away, leaving you free.
So needed this today. I too have been dragging past mistakes around with me for far too long. Just when I think I’m making progress and moving forward, back they come with all their recriminations. As you point out – the past doesn’t govern the present, God does. I need to really understand this. Thank you Evan.
Thank you Evan, just what I needed to read today- and try to remember for every day.
Exactly the reminder I needed this morning. Thank you so much!
I was with you there,
I am with you here,
I am always with you.
I was with you then,
I am with you now,
I am always with you.
—Anonymous
I love this! Thanks I really needed this today.
In Psalm 103 it is said that God has removed our transgressions from us as far as “the east is from west”. I think of this as on a number line in Mathematics with the arrows on either end – and so infinitely moving away from each other. Of course, in God, mistakes don’t even exist, He didn’t create, and so we are not, mistake making mortals. Still, the visual of the number line is helpful to me.
Thank you Evan and all for all of your True, and uplifting words!
“Clinging to the past?” God, the creator of all that is real, knows creation to be spiritual and perfect— in this present moment and always. By Rachael Myrow. From the November 8, 2021 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/29fjjq6vv5w?s=copylink
I’ve heard it said that past mistakes, regret, guilt, etc. are useless emotions. Part of the devil’s (carnal/mortal mind) toolbox (filled with deception, discouragement, distraction, doubt and disruption) keeping us from loving and worshipping God.
I will be taking a screenshot of this so I can refer to it when I find myself living in the past, regretting something that happened. Thank you, Evan.
Thank you so much Evan. We can’t live in a past mistake when God doesn’t know any mistakes. We are stuck on “I and me” instead of omnipotent God, who knows all and is All.
“…when time and space and fear are naught”…hymn #136 from the Christian Science Hymnal popped immediately to thought while reading Be in the Now; A Christian Science lecture titled “God is a Do and God is a Be also comes to thought —-present tense ! And I am happy for Dominique’s comments on the number line! Great gathering with you all today!