From Pastor's Heart :

Reflection

August 30,2019

August 11, 2019 marks our twenty years of ministry in Taiwan. As I reflect back on the things that have transpired in my life and ministries over the years. There have been accomplishments as well as disappointments. It is very tempting to focus on the disappointments and start asking questions, but I have learned and still learning to put everything in proper perspective. We can learn from our past, but we cannot dwell in it. I believe a trap of the devil is to keep us bounded up in the past and make us constantly live in regrets so that we cannot go forward.

I have learned that in order to have future, we must let go of the past. I have since ceased to ask the questions of "what ifs." We cannot do anything to change what had happened because we cannot go back in time, but we can do something about what is ahead of us. Instead of asking "what ifs," we do much better by asking "what now." God cannot work in our "what ifs," but He will involve in our "what now." He is the healer and redeemer of our past as well as the molder of our future.

Let us lay hold of what is ahead of us by "forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead" and "press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." As we do, we will find that His mercies are truly "new every morning," and His thoughts toward us are "of peace and not of evil, to give us a future and a hope!"