Reflections:Yesterdays

                
Life's yesterdays have passed forever beyond our reach: God has them in His keeping. Leave them there!

My yesterdays,

      So filled with guilt and shame,

      My yesterdays are gone,

      Oh praise His name!

      Is there anything more wonderful than the miracle of forgiveness? Anything more beautiful than that feeling of being clean through God's gift of a new life? It's for you! Your loving Father wants you to have all that He's promised.

      --Adapted from Virginia Brandt Berg

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      There is a golden day about which I never worry--a carefree day void of fear and apprehension. It is yesterday! Yesterday with its cares and worries, its aches and pains, its faults and mistakes.

      Yesterday has passed, never to be recalled. I cannot undo a single act; I cannot unsay a word that I said. All that yesterday holds of wrong or right, regret or happiness, is in the hands of a God of love.

      But He can bring honey out of the rock, and He can bring sweet waters out of the bitterest desert. He can turn weeping into laughter; He can give beauty for ashes, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, the joy of the morning for the woe of the night. (See the Bible, Isaiah 61:3, Psalm 30:5)

      Yesterday is gone. It was mine, but now it is in God's hands.--Robert Bridett

      The Bible says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9 NIV). And Hebrews 10:16-17 (NIV) tells us, "’This is the covenant I will make with them after that time,’ says the Lord. ‘I will put My laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.’ Then He adds: ‘Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.’"