The Poison Of Dwelling On The Past

[hldude]

“The Poison Of Dwelling On The Past”
Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

There are a lot of things in life that I forget about. There are things that I remember very easily and then other things I tend to forget. I’m often baffled at what I can easily remember and then the things that I often forget. We all feel this way with the things we wish we could remember and then wonder why there are some things that we have no problem remembering.

One thing that I am very good at remembering, and comes back to haunt me so often, is the memory of mistakes that I have made. I know that we can learn from our mistakes and focus on not repeating them, which is a good thing about remembering the mistakes. However, the bad part about that memory of mistakes is how Satan likes to remind us so often that they somehow define us. He is absolutely WRONG! I have a very bad habit of remembering my mistakes and beating myself up over and over and over again about them. My wife and kids will attest to that!

The enemy has a sly way of popping his ugly head up every time a memory surfaces and a situation presents itself again and I repeat the cycle again getting down on myself. We learn here that God is always doing a new thing. We should never dwell on the past. It’s so easy for us to constantly dwell on things that we did wrong in the past and be reminded of them every day by the enemy. God wants us to instead focus on the new things He is doing with us and through us.

It’s almost as if we are feeding ourselves poison every time we dwell on the past and relive the emotions of the painful mistakes we have made. All the while God is trying to take this poison away from us and get us to focus on the new things He is doing. I know there are many people who will read this and are reliving the same painful memories from the past that keep haunting you. As the Apostle Paul shared to the church in Philippi, he pressed on, forgetting the past and focused on what was ahead. We definitely need to do the same!

Friends, whatever painful past memories you are struggling to stop dwelling on, ask God to give you the strength to overcome and move forward. I’m preaching to myself on this as well! I’ve got a long way to go, but I’m working on it. We are new creatures in Christ! The old has gone, the new has come! Let us focus on who we are in Christ!

Stop feeding on the poison of dwelling on the past.

 

[Quantrill]

“The Poison Of Dwelling On The Past”
Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

There are a lot of things in life that I forget about. There are things that I remember very easily and then other things I tend to forget. I’m often baffled at what I can easily remember and then the things that I often forget. We all feel this way with the things we wish we could remember and then wonder why there are some things that we have no problem remembering.

One thing that I am very good at remembering, and comes back to haunt me so often, is the memory of mistakes that I have made. I know that we can learn from our mistakes and focus on not repeating them, which is a good thing about remembering the mistakes. However, the bad part about that memory of mistakes is how Satan likes to remind us so often that they somehow define us. He is absolutely WRONG! I have a very bad habit of remembering my mistakes and beating myself up over and over and over again about them. My wife and kids will attest to that!

The enemy has a sly way of popping his ugly head up every time a memory surfaces and a situation presents itself again and I repeat the cycle again getting down on myself. We learn here that God is always doing a new thing. We should never dwell on the past. It’s so easy for us to constantly dwell on things that we did wrong in the past and be reminded of them every day by the enemy. God wants us to instead focus on the new things He is doing with us and through us.

It’s almost as if we are feeding ourselves poison every time we dwell on the past and relive the emotions of the painful mistakes we have made. All the while God is trying to take this poison away from us and get us to focus on the new things He is doing. I know there are many people who will read this and are reliving the same painful memories from the past that keep haunting you. As the Apostle Paul shared to the church in Philippi, he pressed on, forgetting the past and focused on what was ahead. We definitely need to do the same!

Friends, whatever painful past memories you are struggling to stop dwelling on, ask God to give you the strength to overcome and move forward. I’m preaching to myself on this as well! I’ve got a long way to go, but I’m working on it. We are new creatures in Christ! The old has gone, the new has come! Let us focus on who we are in Christ!

Stop feeding on the poison of dwelling on the past.

This brings up a question I often entertain, but have yet come to a satisfied answer completely.

When we get to Heaven, will we remember our past life down here?

Quantrill

 

[Susannah]

The word "dwelling" is the most important word in this post from HLDude. In recovery, we must not dwell or live in the past. But if we have been wounded we have to visit the past to learn how it has affected us. We have hidden gems in our unconscious that can reveal why we are currently an addict or depressed or anxious.

I did this by analyzing my dreams with the help of an enlightened witness. Together we processed what we found out. [Identify, talk, write, feel, forgive, let go, move on.] Then, and only then to we let the past go and put it in God's hands.

In summary , when it comes to the past, we do not dwell there or live there, but there are times when we visit it to understand ourselves better. We only need to do this if we were wounded and still have left over business. This means, whether we like it our not, the past haunts us and affects our current life and emotions. Elke Tolle calls this a pain body.

When this process is over we turn to the scriptures and follow Paul's advice: "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11

"Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of the truth about the unique history our childhood.... In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. The damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. We can, however, change ourselves…. We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of the past and are thus able to live with it."

— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child

“The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Change is to human life what the metamorphosis is to the caterpillar; it is the inevitable cycle of life. If there is no change, there is no life.

— Susan Peabody, The Art of Changing

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[JLB]

“The Poison Of Dwelling On The Past”
Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

There are a lot of things in life that I forget about. There are things that I remember very easily and then other things I tend to forget. I’m often baffled at what I can easily remember and then the things that I often forget. We all feel this way with the things we wish we could remember and then wonder why there are some things that we have no problem remembering.

One thing that I am very good at remembering, and comes back to haunt me so often, is the memory of mistakes that I have made. I know that we can learn from our mistakes and focus on not repeating them, which is a good thing about remembering the mistakes. However, the bad part about that memory of mistakes is how Satan likes to remind us so often that they somehow define us. He is absolutely WRONG! I have a very bad habit of remembering my mistakes and beating myself up over and over and over again about them. My wife and kids will attest to that!

The enemy has a sly way of popping his ugly head up every time a memory surfaces and a situation presents itself again and I repeat the cycle again getting down on myself. We learn here that God is always doing a new thing. We should never dwell on the past. It’s so easy for us to constantly dwell on things that we did wrong in the past and be reminded of them every day by the enemy. God wants us to instead focus on the new things He is doing with us and through us.

It’s almost as if we are feeding ourselves poison every time we dwell on the past and relive the emotions of the painful mistakes we have made. All the while God is trying to take this poison away from us and get us to focus on the new things He is doing. I know there are many people who will read this and are reliving the same painful memories from the past that keep haunting you. As the Apostle Paul shared to the church in Philippi, he pressed on, forgetting the past and focused on what was ahead. We definitely need to do the same!

Friends, whatever painful past memories you are struggling to stop dwelling on, ask God to give you the strength to overcome and move forward. I’m preaching to myself on this as well! I’ve got a long way to go, but I’m working on it. We are new creatures in Christ! The old has gone, the new has come! Let us focus on who we are in Christ!

Stop feeding on the poison of dwelling on the past.

Great post.


I believe we all deal with things in the past.

It‘s good to learn from the past, but God does not hold the past sins and mistakes against us, if we have gone to Him and confessed our sin, so that He can forgive us and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.


Satan does try to keep us beat down by our past mistakes.

He is a liar!


Everytime he tries to bring up my past, the past that I know has been forgiven, I am reminded that God is justified in sending him to the lake of fire, for all of eternity, because it’s his rebellious nature we inherited from Adam, that causes us to sin.

Be blessed. Knowing your Lord does not remember your sins.

• For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Jeremiah 31:33-34



JLB

 

[humble soul]

Bbbbut but but, the past is all I've got!
I need to ruminate. It's my right! I have a right to ruminate:!

 

[Susannah]

Bbbbut but but, the past is all I've got!
I need to ruminate. It's my right! I have a right to ruminate:!

Once you have processed your past and allowed God to forgive you for your mistakes it's okay to ruminate e. I think the important thing is that you not dwell on your mistakes. That you do not feed your remorse with negative thoughts. That you not condemn yourself.

I ruminate all the I ruminate all the time about my husband who passed on. But I don't think about the bad times. I focus on how much we loved each other and the good times that we had.

I think there's a difference between dweling on the negative past and ruminating on good things. It's only natural to look back. But looking back is not the problem it's your negative conclusions that are poison.

I guess I'm defending the relevance of the past because I studied history in college. I learned things that enlightened me about the history of the world. When I read the Bible I often think about the past and imagine that I'm walking in the garden with Christ. So I guess what works for me is a rhythmic dance between the past present and future. I move from one to the other like a river.

 

[Prycejosh1987]

Stop feeding on the poison of dwelling on the past.

Powerful, a lot of problems are solved and the heart in better condition if we follow this saying.