Have you ever felt like Nazareth (John 1:46)? Something that nobody expects any good to come out of? We probably have felt that way some time in our life. We have bad circumstances hit our familes, our personal lives, etc. and we get to the point that we wonder why we are even here.
Nazareth had established a poor reputation in morals and religion. Thus, Nathaniel's question in John 1:46. When we are associated with something or someone that has a bad reputation that same label can be put on us.
The devil will attempt to use our past or our associations to discredit us. He's very good at it. Don't let your past be a weapon in his hand. When you were saved Jesus rescued you from your past. Paul said in Philippians 3:13-14, "Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind [his past whether good or bad] and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus [one day spend eternity with Christ in heaven]." Paul was explaining how important it is for us to not live on our past spiritual accomplishments or failures but to press forward today in serving Christ to our fullest.
May God's blessings (and there are many) lift you out of the miry clay.
'Til the storm passes,
Pastor Gary
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