WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE PAST YOUR PAST

Medical researchers have discovered that you use the same regions in the brain for recollecting your past as you do for envisioning your future. These findings illustrate why an amnesic person who can't remember the past, isn’t good at planning tomorrow. The same phenomenon is seen in suicidally depressed people.

Basically this research indicates that if you’re using your brain to think about your past, then that part of your brain is preoccupied and therefore cannot be used to visualize your future. It’s funny that researchers just now understand something that Christians have known for thousands of years.

Christians recognize that we have an adversary. He is the accuser of brethren and he will remind us of all our failures. Why does he do this? Because the enemy knows that we become ineffective in the future if we’re stuck in the past. He understands this brain game.

If we are to beat the devil at his own game then we need to do what the Bible instructs: Do not dwell on the past (Is 43:18). We need to bury those things from yesterday and use those regions of our brain to envision how we can become more effective for the Kingdom tomorrow. Simply put – we need to see past our past