All of us have a past. For some of us, we feel a wellspring of pride, for there is nothing we can recall that is outside the will of God. However, for others of us, we struggle with overcoming a reputation that haunts us. People remember who we were, and that stifles our walk with Jesus.
The same has been true throughout the ages. In Solomon 8:8-9, we read of a woman’s pain that is 3,000 years old.
The Shulamite woman has appealed to Solomon to return with her to her mother’s house. Yet, when they arrive, her brothers speak harshly to her, calling her out as an immature girl, the child they remember from their youth. They go so far as to claim she is good for nothing, neither a “wall” to keep strangers out, nor a “door” to welcome her lover in.
Do we feel others do that to us? They have defined us by who we were, and not by who God wants us to be. They have defined our Christian walk for us, even as God is changing us day by day.
Our past reputation cannot define our future with God. The people who knew us before we came to Christ cannot build walls around who God wants us to be. God is not defined by who we were. Rather, God defines who we will become.
When we come to the cross, our past is washed away, and we are undefined by any except the Creator of the Universe, the One who walks in glory, the great I Am that I Am.
God draws us to our future. He does not want us mired in our past.
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