And as I talked with this bitter man, and as I listened to his threats and vileness I couldn t help but think that here was a man who knew first hand what hell was. He had been living in it for nearly 25 years. My friends, if we want to be new people, we have to get rid of the old. Anyone in Christ is a new creation. The old has passed away.
Forgiveness is one way out of the past.
Forgiveness opens the door for life to begin anew. If we don t want to grow old, we must acknowledge to ourselves that the old is indeed gone. To receive the new life, we must live neither in the past nor in the future . Living in the present , through faith in the grace of Jesus Christ, is what renews us. I like what one preacher said, There are those who by living in the past or future are prisoners of the present.