Sin leaves marks on us. Consider the alcoholic, who, after years of heavy drinking, gives his life to the Lord. Do all the wrinkles and marks of a hard life suddenly smooth out? Of course not. Paul tells us that we are to live our Christian lives by “forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before” (Philippians:3:13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
See All...). How can we expect to make any progress if we are continually spending all our time agonizing over the things of the past? May God lift our hearts and our eyes that we might learn to look less at ourselves and more at Him (2 Corinthians:3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
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"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
—Galatians:6:7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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