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Don’t Let Your Past Pick Your Future

Chuck Colson sat at the right hand of President Nixon during Watergate. When everything fell apart, he was convicted of obstruction of justice and sent to federal prison. From the outside, that looked like the final chapter of his story, as if his reputation, career, and future were gone in a single sweep. Yet what looked like the end became the beginning of Prison Fellowship, a ministry now reaching more than 365,000 prisoners a year across 120 countries!

Moses lived in that same in-between space for forty years. After killing an Egyptian and fleeing into the desert, he tended his father-in-law’s sheep with the weight of a murder on his conscience and a failed deliverance behind him. So when God finally showed up at the burning bush and called him back to Pharaoh, you can almost hear Moses thinking, I already tried thisand it didn’t work… I’m not the guy anymore…

The enemy loves keeping us pinned to our worst day, convinced that one failure or one season has permanently disqualified us from whatever God might want to do next. Friend, it hasn’t! The same God who picked a murderer to lead a nation and a felon to reach prisoners is more than able to do something brand new, no matter what you’ve been carrying.

Pray

Father, I refuse to let my past write my future. Do something new in me, even now. Amen.