End of December days are the most reminiscing times of the year, I suppose, as we look back how we’ve gone so far this year 2011, before we’ll welcome and anticipate another new year. How fast time flies. Inevitably, looking back from the past events, thoughts may cross your mind such as, “Things in the past I should have obviated were things I remorse now.”…perhaps the dagger of time might console.
If haply you’ve seen the movie, The Prince of Persia – Sands of time, you probably know how the dagger of time works. It is an archaeological artifact which holds the sands of time from the hourglass, and it has the ability to reverse, control, and rewind time. The person, who holds and activates it, could travel back in the past in just few seconds, and only that person is aware of what happened. Big chance: rewound the worst past to have the best future. Easy! Rewinding time, see how consoling it is to have this magnificent artifact. I’m sure one would like to undo the wrong things done in the past. If and only if.
Now back to reality. Life is not a series of fiction movies made by imagination and fantasies. Yet at times when we couldn't take a humble acceptance of things which already took place, we opt to wish that if we could turn back the time and prevented the event where we had made our great mistakes, life would be different now.
You could not choose what events would store up in your memory, even the darkest past, and it’s out of your control. Nonetheless, we shouldn't let this divert our focus to move forward. Let bygones be bygones, but let it be a lesson that will make a better you, today. It does not guarantee you not to make wrong decisions and mistakes anymore, but by learning from the past you'll be able to weigh things in perspective and make better judgments now.
Get comfort and admonition from the word of God and not by dwelling on vain imaginations and fantasies to console regrets, “This should be my life, if only...” Erase them from your thoughts. It will not suffice your selfish complacency. Take complete acceptance of your past wrongs, even Christ forgave and washed your sins with his blood, the guilt has gone. Encumber your heavy load of regrets. As quoted by Elizabeth Elliot,”We need to ask for the grace of God to choose a realistic goal at the start, and have specific substitute thoughts to replace the unwanted ones.” Ask God to control your thoughts. Consider II Corinthians10:5, “Casting down imaginations…bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” Do you want to know the Lord’s thought toward you? The Scripture says in Jeremiah 29:11“For I know the thought that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not evil, to give you an expected end.” If we trust his pure intentions toward us, true joy and peace will rest within us.
