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♥️
Caz, I had the same experience. When I first started studying Christian Science I called a practitioner very upset about a past mistake I had made. Before I could even tell her what it was, she just said firmly, ”Do you regret doing it?” Of course my answer was yes. Then she asked, “Would you ever do it again?” I answered with a heartfelt no! She then stated emphatically, “That’s all God requires. You don’t need to worry about it any further.” I felt such a relief, and in the years since, I’ve been able to gradually see the reasoning behind her statements from the Bible and Science and Health. The Bible does say the future is already past, and the past is now. So we take care of whatever is bothering us in the past or future by knowing the spiritual Truth about it now.
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.
And anything wrong that apparently anyone else did cannot continue to harm us. It doesn’t matter what the story is about the past. We are not harmed or controlled now by abuse or undesirable parenting, a car collision, or robbery, or rape, or poverty or racism. . Not a corporation violating its contracts and not paying pensions or compensation to its injured workers or cleanup of its polluting the environment. The past does not carry evil to now, whether from wars, genocide, ecocide, global economic failure, international crime syndicates or terrorism or fascism or climate catastrophes. Not dictators and corruption. or anything else from the past, does not govern us now. It cannot and does not restrict us now, does not hurt us now, does not make us sad or longing for it or sad and being traumatized by it. Someone dying in the past does not have to make us lack or grieve now.. people lying and betrayed us or hating us in the past has nothing to do with God loving us now. Likewise, an ideal wonderful happy past does not mean we have to be unhappy now. Only God is in control, so only good results eternally, everywhere.
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!
Thank you for posting this line of hymn 136, Probably my favorite hymn, and that line in particular to me encapsules the ultimate demonstration of Christian Science. Time and space are the lie of mortal mind though sometimes are not shown as bad; and fear too is the lie of mortal mind, but fear always points to a belief in evil–the opposite of God (thus, actually, nothingness.)
It seems we have all had mistakes (humanly), even Mrs. Eddy, in
some issues in her life and in learning and revising her writings.
Jesus, is perhaps, the only one, who it seems did not have
documented accounts of things he regretted doing. Even in
commenting about his disciples not watching with him “for one hour”,
he still was not overly critical, although he had reason to be. When in
anger, he overturned the money-changer’s tables, but he still had
reason to be upset. So, there are none of us, who in some way, have
not had challenges of making “human” mistakes in the past. Learning
from them and seeing ourselves as spiritually being helps us overcome
challenges that seem to be.
Thank you. Mortal mind was rerunning a seemingly unfortunate incident from childhood for me a couple of days ago, when an angel thought interrupted with – Why, you can just drop that! – and I did, and felt free.
A poem comes to mind from June 26 1978 Sentinel, by Ruth Kaseman
All Good Remains
Nothing is as gone
as a past
that never was.
Thank you! Very helpful poem. Exactly: past never was! So regretting it is like regretting a bad dream. When we see the unreality of it, the anguish vanishes.
wonderful, Evan, “God is my Truth and not the past. And God is good.” Thank you very much, dear Evan! It’s a so needed and so very helpful and comforting Truth you give us with your today’s SpiritView!
To leave all the error behind, I seemingly experienced in all my former times and give room for healing is a certain coming out of the tomb of false material suppositions and thoughts.
Wow we can actually celebrate Easter every day with demonstration of the Christ truth!
Am very grateful for the redeemer, Christian Sciencea Thank you all for your loving inspirations! ♡
Thank you Evan. I was able to use this Spirit View immediately to support my daughter who was highly distraught this evening about inadvertently missing a mandatory meeting earlier in the day for her upcoming abroad program. I used the ideas here to help her realize that she doesn’t need to beat herself up about it for another moment, that a small mistake has absolutely no power over the law of good unfolding in her life, here and now, and that nothing was or can be taken away. Just what was needed to dry her tears. Thank you!
Two short and very helpful poems.
“Purpose” by June Fowler
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/d3gy788n62?s=copylink
“Self-Forgiveness” by Ginny Luedeman
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/vsyttqptja?s=copylink
Thank you! Indeed very helpful.
Needed this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just as regretting mistakes in “the past” is like regretting mistakes in a dream because they never were part of Truth, Spirit; the good things “in the past” are not ever gone because they are part of ever-present Truth, Spirit. There is a reason God is ever-present and not ever-past or ever-future! 🙂 God is ever-present, God is Good, and God is all there is (Truth.) So, if not good, it was only an illusion; if good, never-absent.
Regret for past mistakes is one of the most effective tools of the serpent to keep us focused (thus believing) in evil, matter.
Thank you Evan for bringing this important subject to the light and thank you al for the wonderful comments and sharing.
A line from a favorite movie (Under The Tuscan Sun) comes to mind regarding regrets….”Regrets are a waste of time. They are the past crippling you in the present.”