Bro. John:
I could not read the line from your email, below*, without thinking of what the Lord told me several years ago when I was listening to my mother go on about her past and the bitterness I felt coming from her concerning her past life. I remember silently telling Jesus that I did not want to be like that when I got older, carrying all that old stuff from the past around in my heart. No sooner had my heart reached out to him when I tenderly heard, “You are not a product of that (earthly) union anymore“. Whew! Talk about a liberating feeling! I floated home in the arms of Jesus that day. That was when he showed us that we have a “new past” and to live in it! Oh, to believe in who we are and not struggle against something we are not. Whew! It is good, good, good!
*”You’re struggling against something you’re not, not against something you are.”
Sandy 🙂