Don’t Dwell On Past Mistakes

Remember when you were in school or taking a test for a job, and they gave you a picture of some animals and asked which animal best describes you? So, let me ask you, are you a chicken, a buzzard, or an eagle?

Let me give you a description of each of these. A chicken always has its head down looking at the ground, it only sees dust. A chicken is dust conscious. In Luke 18 there is a story of a woman who was bent over for 18 years. Can you imagine? Her view was only of dust. One day she saw the beautiful feet of Jesus who brought her good news and raised her up. How many are like the chicken who continually look at life from the perspective of being bent over? They believe that no one loves them, and they have no power over life and the world and the devil. Yet, the Bible tells us in Genesis 3:19 that our Father cursed the devil to eat dust all the days of His life. Remember Jesus said, “If I be lifted up I will draw all men to me.” Look up you chickens.

Maybe you are not a chicken but a buzzard, or at least you think you are. A buzzard is always circling, never going anywhere and they are always looking for death, looking at roadkill and things that stink. Are you more conscious of your past mistakes and past sins than you are of what Christ has done for you? Paul once said, “forgetting those things which are behind I press on.” God wants you to be conscious of your righteousness through what Christ has done for you, and not your past sins. Have you come to Jesus? Then your sins are gone. So, begin to confess who you are in Jesus, so if the devil who is the accuser of the brethren begins to accuse you, tell the devil who you are in Jesus and quit circling over all that death and stink.

The last is the Eagle and I believe this is who we as a church are striving to be. Isaiah 40:31 “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” Eagles are those who believe the Bible, and what the word of God says about them, that they are the beloved of God. So, which are you? A chicken, a buzzard, or an eagle? So, if some of you still insist on being chickens when you don’t have to, okay, but at least make yourself useful, I need an egg. 

Pastor Lee Cruse.