Moses had a past. He was a murderer. (See Exodus 2:11–12.) But years later he would proclaim the eighth commandment: you shall not murder (Exod. 20:13). David had a past, but he also had a future after his shame: “Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you,” he wrote (Ps. 51:13). Jonah deliberately ran from God, but he was still used in an astonishing revival (Jon. 3). Peter’s disgrace—denying Jesus—did not abort God’s plans for him. But all these men had to forgive themselves before they could move into the ministry God had planned for them. Can you do that?
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