Deal With Your Past Properly

Pastor Johannes Nare’s sermon in brief

25 September 2011

God does not have an interest to people who always dig what is behind. The statistics say most women like to go back where they are coming from. Even after they got married, they want to be treated that way; saying “Don’t forget where I come from.” These people need a special treatment. These kinds of people, they will make your life difficult. It is even difficult to advise them. Because if you try to do so, they will say, “Don’t forget where I come from.”

Let’s look at your life... the dangers of focussing on your past. I want to be specific bretheren today because it doesn’t help to be more spiritual while many people in church are wounded. Some has decided to be more spiritual.

Most mothers are wounded spiritually; especially our kids and sisters. Some are coming from abusive backgrounds. So when they grow up, they didn’t deal with their bruises in a properly manner. Some of them became too spiritual; they say, “Don’t worry pastor I am praying.”  After praying, the same thing comes back to that particular person. If you don’t deal with your past, it simple means you are living with a wound-unhealed. Do not spiritualise your situation. It will hurt you big time.

Visit relevant people; visit social workers; visit psychologists; visit pastors and try to solve your problems. Certain things happened in your life in the past; but the question is; did you solve them? You will never clothe your past no matter what.

Let me tell you something about a wound. If a wound is not getting healed it will hurt you again. When it hurts you, it doesn’t hurt you on the same place again. It spreads all-over your body. No wonder everytime we are hospitalised. You are not hospitalised because you are sick but because of your past. The moment you think about your past you get depressed. Becuase there is a wound that has been opened up. That wound is not healed. You live with it wherever you are.

Now, once you don’t solve your problem it will not affect you; but it will affect all the people around you; your wife, your children, your husband everyone. Everytime you say something you want to be treated special. She will always say, “I passed on this route.” This person is contaminated. Pastors are nolonger able to preach because you will always bring your past, and ask the pastor not to mention certain things that happened to you.

Stop blaming your past; deal with your past and carry on with your life.