Are you one of those people who look back all of the time? Josh-WilsonDo you live in the past more than in the present? I have a friend who calls it bad fishing when we keep dredging up the negative pieces of our past. We cast our pole behind us hoping to catch something and drag it into our present.

There’s a great song that addresses this exact issue. The song is called That was then, this is now. The idea is pretty simple actually. Leave the past in the past. Quit trying to dig it back up. Quit trying to re-live it. It’s done. It’s over. That was then!

If we, as followers of Jesus, truly believe in the power of confession then we’ll take this to heart. Jesus invites us to lay our problems, hurts, and burdens at the cross. He tells us that he is going to take them from us. He promises that he has them covered and we need not worry about them any longer. He tells us that was then!

But he doesn’t stop there. He then invites us to a new reality. This is now! Now is the time for this new life. Now is the time to live in the freedom of forgiveness in Christ. Now is the reality that Jesus death and resurrection have made us new and we are now free to live a life that God always had in store for us. That was then, this is now!

Live in the NOW of God’s redemption and grace.