Forgetting Your Past: Turn Your Pain into Purpose
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Overview
How do we forget past betrayal, disappointments, divorce, abandonment? You’ve heard the saying, “I can forgive, but not forget.” In Forgetting Your Past Bob Gass shows you how to turn your pain into purpose, and draw from your greatest disappointments the wisdom and strength you need to build a better future. You do not have to just survive your past; you can soar above it. Among many of the lessons you will read, Gass notes that there are four essential ones: refusing to live like a victim, isolating the problem, letting God’s perfect love heal your scars, and giving to others the healing you received from God. The chapters are short enough to act as daily meditations or devotionals. In them you will learn to receive God’s grace, make restitution, and develop the right attitude about yourself.
- Headings and outlines to guide your reading
- Author draws from real-life experience and the Bible to offer practical advice
Top Highlights
“1) Because they don’t ‘feel’ forgiven, and therefore they conclude that they must not ‘be’ forgiven.” (Page 9)
“Paul wrote, ‘Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching unto those things which are before …’ Philippians 3:13). Paul understood that forgetting and reaching are the keys to inner healing. One will not work without the other. Forgetting closes the door on the past; reaching opens the door to the future.” (Page 6)
“His third strategy is to get you to speak negatively.” (Page 48)
“Repentance is not just ‘feeling sorry’ for what you’ve done. It’s a quality decision to break with the past and all its associations, pleasures, habits, and thought patterns. It’s an about-face-turn.” (Page 30)
“First, refuse to live like a victim! When I decided to stop looking for sympathy and start looking for solutions, I began to get well.” (Page 2)
One of the best books I have ever read. I keep on reading it again and again.
—Online reviewer
- Title: Forgetting Your Past: Turn Your Pain Into Purpose
- Author: Bob Gass
- Publisher: Bridge-Logos
- Publication Date: 2000
- Pages: 135
Bob Gass was born in Ireland and immigrated to America at age 18. This former pastor, well-known for his dynamic speaking, currently serves as a director with the United Christian Broadcasters in Britain. Bob and his wife Debby reside in Atlanta, Georgia.