Set the Captives Free

"Christ came to set the captives free. Satan came to take the free captive."
-Beth Moore, Breaking Free

I read this book at possibly one of my lowest points earlier this year. I was reading quotes I had written in my diary when I came across this one.

How true it is!

Christ came to set us free from all the bad stuff in our lives that keeps us from walking into His wonderful plans for us. Satan wants to keep us in the past, in our regrets and our mistakes. Satan doesn't want us to move forward. He wants us stuck. He wants us so low that we forget the good things in our lives.

I am in the process of moving forward from the wreckage of my past. Each new day, I try to separate myself from the hold that the past has had on my life. I try to separate myself from what was and try to focus on what is. And what will be. I try to remind myself that I am free in Christ and I am able to move forward.

The past is over and done with... No longer can it have a hold on me.

I am not a little abused child anymore. I am not a neglected and homeless teen. I am a strong woman who is going to make a difference in the world. 

And that is what I hold on to each day that I move forward.