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Let Go of Yesterday
Dear Younger Self: A Letter from Your Future
Part 1: Let Go of Yesterday
Stephen Blandino
Exodus 1:11, 13 (NLT) – So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor….the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.
How to Let Go of Yesterday:
1. Embrace a New Identity
Exodus 14:11b-12 (NLT) – “Why did you make us leave Egypt? 12 Didn’t we tell you this would happen while we were still in Egypt? We said, ‘Leave us alone! Let us be slaves to the Egyptians. It’s better to be a slave in Egypt than a corpse in the wilderness!’”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT) – This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
2. Envision a Better Future
Numbers 13:27 (NLT) – “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
3. Enlarge Your Perspective
Numbers 13:28, 31b, 33b (NLT) – But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!…“We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”…Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”
Numbers 14:2-4 (NLT) – Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained. 3 “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”
4. Establish New Habits
Exodus 16:2-3 (NLT) – There, too, the whole community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron. 3 “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
Numbers 11:1, 4-6 (NLT) – Soon the people began to complain about their hardship, and the Lord heard everything they said….4 Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt. And the people of Israel also began to complain. “Oh, for some meat!” they exclaimed. 5 “We remember the fish we used to eat for free in Egypt. And we had all the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic we wanted. 6 But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”
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Dear Younger Self: A Letter from Your Future
Part 1: Let Go of Yesterday
Stephen Blandino
Exodus 1:11, 13 (NLT) – So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor….the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.
How to Let Go of Yesterday:
1. Embrace a New Identity
Exodus 14:11b-12 (NLT) – “Why did you make us leave Egypt? 12 Didn’t we tell you this would happen while we were still in Egypt? We said, ‘Leave us alone! Let us be slaves to the Egyptians. It’s better to be a slave in Egypt than a corpse in the wilderness!’”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT) – This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
2. Envision a Better Future
Numbers 13:27 (NLT) – “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
3. Enlarge Your Perspective
Numbers 13:28, 31b, 33b (NLT) – But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!…“We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!”…Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”
Numbers 14:2-4 (NLT) – Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained. 3 “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”
4. Establish New Habits
Exodus 16:2-3 (NLT) – There, too, the whole community of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron. 3 “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
Numbers 11:1, 4-6 (NLT) – Soon the people began to complain about their hardship, and the Lord heard everything they said….4 Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt. And the people of Israel also began to complain. “Oh, for some meat!” they exclaimed. 5 “We remember the fish we used to eat for free in Egypt. And we had all the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic we wanted. 6 But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”