Thursday, August 30, 2018

JOHN Good Morning! I’m John Branning, the Lead Pastor of Central United Methodist Church. I read a story not long ago about a man who was slowly losing his memory. After a lengthy examination, the doctor said that a risky operation on his brain might reverse his condition and restore his memory. However, the surgery would be so delicate that a nerve could be severed, causing total blindness. The surgeon asked, "So, which would you rather have, your sight or your memory?" The man pondered the question for a while and replied, "My sight because I would rather see where I am going than remember where I have been." Our enemy is always trying to dig up the past and keep us all bound up in our failures. But be encouraged! Today is a new day! Today and every day we have a choice to 0make! In Philippian’s Chapter 3, Paul says that he has learned to forget those things which are behind and reach forth unto those things which are before. Like Paul, we must choose to press forward and put aside our past. We must purpose to keep our eyes on the Lord, not on our successes or failures, but upon on what can we do for Him today! It’s time to live free from our past.