Letting Go

In my Biblical Counseling class, we keep coming back to the differences between traditional Biblical counseling and traditional psychology. Sigmund Freud taught that it was combination of our genetics and our environment that we were raised in that make us who we are today. Our professor continues to point us to Isaiah 43:18-19 which states, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." As we discuss the meaning of this verse, our professor keeps pointing out that while our genetics do contribute to who we are, as believers in Jesus Christ, we find our identity in who we are today in Christ, not who we were in our sins. So, even when we desire to think back on some of the tragic things that we have done, or even those that were done to us, we remind ourselves of what Christ has done for us and we move on in that. Man, do I ever need to hear that and remind myself of this daily! So...look forward, forget the things of the past, and run towards Him in what he has done for you and will do for you in the future. He is doing new and wonderful things before us!