BURNING THE BRIDGES TO YOUR PAST

When growing up, I  have often heard the good advice, “Don’t burn the bridges behind you, in case you have to go back.” The advice meant that if you were quitting a job, leave under good circumstances, in case you had to work there again or if they had to give you a reference. If it was the end of the school year, it would be wise to leave in good standing with all the students in case you had to share classes with them next year.

If you were moving out of the neighborhood, it would be good to leave a good impression with your neighbors rather than leaving them with a bad one of you. You never knew if you would bump into them again. I was taught to always try to keep the door open, so that you could always go back or be welcomed if you had to return. 

 It is good advice – in most cases. One exception is when it applies to living the Christian life. When a person solely trusts Christ for his salvation, he is born again into the family of God. He is a new creature. He is free from the bondage of sin. God does not want him to go back into the same mess he was saved from.

If God saved a person and helped him overcome the sin of lying, God certainly does not want him to go back into the same sin. If God delivered a person from the clutches of a terrible drinking habit, He does not want him back in the same situation. When he saves us and cleans our lives up, He wants us to stay clean from sin that will hurt us. He gives us a second chance.

The only way we can keep from going back into the same sin God delivered us from is to keep away from it. The safest way to protect yourself from going back into the lifestyle God rescued you from is to “burn the bridges” behind you. In this situation, it is good advice to make it so you cannot return to what you once were.

The goal is to get me to look back, to reminisce, to cling to what was good amid the bad. But I remember Lot’s wife.
If God has called you out of a place, if God has called out of a relationship, if God has called you out of anything: Don’t give in to the wanderings of the soul that wonder how it could have been or what it would be like if you went back now. Don’t look back. It paralyzes your soul. It’s impossible to move forward and look back at the same time. It tears you apart. And that’s what the enemy wants. Remember Lot’s wife.
- See more at: http://www.jenniferleclaire.org/articles/burning-the-bridges-to-your-past#sthash.G37mjj8G.dpufSometimes we feel like our lives are going nowhere and like our lives have just become too tiring, but maybe what we need to do is get rid of extra baggage that we carry along with us; be it our friends, past hurts, failed relationships and past failures.

Truth is, we often limit ourselves from becoming better people simply because we are too weighed down by unnecessary stuff that constantly reminds us that we are less than. Letting go though, is easier said than done, because it means we have to uncover ourselves and at times undo ourselves in order to be re-done into better people.

It takes a lot of courage to admit that we have unsolved issues from the past but it takes strength to let go of those issues. It's a daily process that is so painful at first, because in a way it's like letting go of a part of you, but just like when we learned how to keep our balance on the bike; we must learn to balance the positivity with the negativity.

Just like we turned the pedals for the first time; we have to try and take our first steps free of the brands that have been given to us. And just like when we had our training wheels taken of our bikes; we have to completely rid ourselves of all the pain the hurt and all the brands we have given to ourselves or been given by others.

You got to break ties, and break free....some bridges should be burned

Each time your tempted to look back at your past, Remember Lots Wife

Muthoni Wachira