Then secondly, we will never be successful in the Christian life until we burn the bridges to the past. Notice, if they had been mindful of the country from whence they came, the Bible says they would have gone back. Sometime in your life you must burn your bridges to the past. Accept and embrace the present. Until you embrace the present, you will never do great things for God. Too many people leave something in the past and always hold on to the hope of just maybe going back someday. This will never work in the Christian life. You must decide to completely burn your bridges and settle in your heart that you will never go back. Embrace the stage of life you are in or the place of life in which you dwell. Until bridges of the past are burnt, you will never completely be able to do for God what He wants you to do.

The success of your Christian life is dependent on these two things: not getting too comfortable in this present world and embracing where you are by burning the bridges to the past. Do you have bridges that need to be burnt? Is there still something you hold onto from the past? Decide now that you will never go back to the past, and embrace where you are in the present. Set up stakes in the present, seeking a better country. If you will stop living in the past and getting comfortable in this world, then that better country is waiting for you.

Don’t Dig A Pit For Yourself

Proverbs 26:27

“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.”

In the Bible, we find that God classifies sin in different ways. For instance, God calls some sin iniquity, some transgressions and some sin He calls evil. The worst of all sin is evil. Now I know that all sin is wrong and all sin is bad, but evil is especially wrong because of the degree to which it affects others. Evil is doing wrong with the intent to hurt someone. Evil is not just sinning, but it is committing sin with the purpose of trying to hurt someone.