Most of the times, thoughts about a guilty past can suffocate our present and deeply darken our lives. Mentally revisiting all our past actions and endlessly analysing them make us feel guilty, dissatisfied, scared and unworthy. But God has redeemed us and wants us to abandon the guilty state in which we are used to live. When the past threatens to overwhelm us with regrets and discouragement, He has the right words to help us break free from the past! Here is a list of 10 Bible verses that can help you in times of despair.
Psalms 103:12: „As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”
Ephesians 2: 4-6: „ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved”
Isaiah 43:18,19: “Do not remember the former things, / Nor consider the things of old. / Behold, I will do a new thing, / Now it shall spring forth; /
Shall you not know it? / I will even make a road in the wilderness /
And rivers in the desert.”
Psalm 30:5: „ For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favour lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
Isaiah 40: 29-31: „ He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
2 Corinthians 12:9: „But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
Hebrews 13:8: „Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!”
Jeremiah 3:22,23: „Lord’s goodness isn’t over, his mercy isn’t ended, but it is renewed every morning. And Your faith is so great!”
2 Corinthians 5:17: „Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
Ephesians 3:16-19: „I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
Remember you no longer live in the past. It does no good to your mind or heart and it doesn’t help you determine your life direction. God doesn’t live there, so neither should you!
