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\u201cForget 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.\u201d -Isaiah 43:18-20<\/em><\/p>\n Are there things from your past that you keep going back to? Old mistakes, past regrets, personal failures, or things that you still feel guilt over? Are there things that you need to \u201cforget\u201d or stop dwelling on in your life?<\/p>\n In the Old Testament, when the Israelites were far away from God, rebelling and worshipping other gods, the prophet Isaiah was one of the prophets to call them into account. But, even though the Israelites had done horrible things, (even sacrificing their children to idols! {Ezekiel 16:20}), God was willing to give them another chance.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Come now, let\u2019s settle this,\u2019 says the Lord. \u2018Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool.’\u201d (Isaiah 1:18)<\/p>\n Sometimes we are unable to fully move forward in life because we are continually looking behind us. Mistakes, regrets, and avoidable circumstances may continue to plague us even after we\u2019ve asked forgiveness and laid it to rest \u2013 even against ourselves! But, when the past is behind us, and we\u2019ve been forgiven, it really is no more. Satan wants our past and present to be our future. But God always sees us for who we are becoming.<\/p>\n Are you ready to receive God\u2019s forgiveness, and ready to let go of the \u201cformer things\u201d? Pray and ask God to give you the strength and grace to leave the past behind you.<\/p>\n Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forgetting the Former Things \u201cForget 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.\u201d -Isaiah 43:18-20 Are there things from your past that you keep going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3313,182,181],"class_list":["post-12287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-forgetting","tag-god","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}