Moving On....

The past is the past, we can learn from it to make our future better or we can dwell on it and not leave the well. Satan wants us to look back, see what we had and to continue to sulk in that which is no longer...

I guess I’m blogging about this stuff because my parents headed home earlier – which always leaves me missing my family, my friends… I can look back and miss, but it is vital that I look at our lives now and see what we do have. What God has blessed us with now- I don’t want to get caught up at the well and afraid to leave it. I want to be free from the burden of loss and to continue on to what God has called us to.

This week in my ladies bible study we discussed the woman at the well. John 4 The story goes a little like this....Jesus walks up to a Samaritan women (Jews and Samaritans didn’t not associate) and ask for a drink…. She talks to him! She said “How can you ask me for a drink?” Jesus begins to tell her, that drinking her water, she will always be thirsty and the water he has to offer -she will never thirst again.

This is the part most people seems to stop- vs. 14 “but whoever drinks the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Of course, that is hugely important; anything written in the scripture is powerful and meaningful!!

For me this story is so much more than drinking from the well, it’s about receiving the everlasting life and than GOING. An not being stuck at the well -afraid that our sins will haunt us. We cannot allow our past to burden us so much that we fear to go and share what God has done.

Bringing me to the end of the story, Vs: 16-03 Jesus’ tells her he knows her sin, she believes him! And Surrenders to it, and is free to go and share with others, wow!! Did you realize that he forgives us and we do not have to let sin and burden hold us back from our mission- Matt 28 18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

One of my most favorite studies, “Virtuous Woman” By Vicki Courtney she writes, “Satan would like nothing more than to render woman ineffective as believer is Jesus Christ. We must recognize him for who he really is. Christian Woman who are burdened with shame and guilt are of no worry to him. He knows that if he can keep them at the well, doubting God’s love and forgiveness; they will have little impact in furthering the kingdom of God. Think about it. If you are not completely free from you past, how can you race from the well with excitement to share with others this wonderful gift?”

Jesus offers us freedom so that we can live free from all that hinders us to move on and worship him…
Psalm 103 3-5 He forgives your sins—every one.
He heals your diseases—every one.
He redeems you from hell—saves your life!
He crowns you with love and mercy—a paradise crown.
He wraps you in goodness—beauty eternal.
He renews your youth—you're always young in his presence.
6-18 God makes everything come out right;
he puts victims back on their feet.

I encourage you to know that God wipes our slate clean. We can be free of the crime that Satan tries to throw in our face, we have to power to look Satan in the face and say, “I have been washed cleaned thru the atonement of Jesus’ blood!!!!!” Even if it's not a specific sin but letting go and moving on... remember...

POWER!!!
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from ALL sin.

I encourage you sa well as a daily reminder to me, to not look to the past because God has moved us on…. But look forward to what we do have in Christ.

Romans 8:15-17 (The Message)
15-17This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?"

What’s next?