God queried Samuel's continued mourning for Saul. God already rejected Saul from being King of Israel. So Samuel was mourning over a rejection that happened in the past; he was mourning because of the past; he was encumbered with thoughts of the past.
Friend, God says, forget the past. Stop feeling bad because of things that went wrong in the past; stop mourning on account of the gossips and wickedness that men hurled at you in the past; stop feeling bad for the missed opportunities of the past; forget the disappointments and humiliation you suffered in the past; forget the bad experiences that happened in your past; stop living in the fear and pain of the past.
Samuel's mourning for Saul didn’t make God to reconsider Saul; he mourned for the past in vain. If mourning for the past won't reverse the past or create a better future, then stop mourning. If reminding yourself of past disappointments and heartbreaks will not move you forward, then forget them before they break you further.
Your constant connection to the past will rob you of the opportunity to connect to a better future. If you keep mourning on account of what went wrong, you may not notice that God has begun to make some things right. If you keep focusing on the past, you won't gain a good focus of the future.
Whatever you have experienced in the past is not as important as the future that God wants to make happen for you. Do yourself a favour: forget the past!
Isaiah 43 vs. 18 (GWT) sums it up this way: “Forget what happened in the past, and do not dwell on events from long ago.”
Pray With Me: Lord, I choose to forget the past; my past will not rule my future, in Jesus’ name!
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