I have recently had two experiences in my life that very clearly point to the fact that we need to make sure that old business is taken care of completely. This takes two forms. The first is doing things that we have left undone. Things like reconciliation with someone, forgiving a past hurt, fulfilling a promise, making a phone call, reaching out to a neighbor, repairing something that is broken, tuning up something that isn't working as well as it could be, buying something for a friend, sending that money. There are an endless number of little stirrings that we forget to act upon. Time robs us of doing the little things. The bigger more pressing needs always get our attention. God is in the big things but He is also a God of the little details. In Exodus 4:24-26, God sought to kill Moses because he had not circumcised his son. Moses had not fulfilled the sign of the covenant right on his first born. This seams like a small detail, but a person who is not circumcised was to be cut off from his people (Gen 17:14) The law of blessing and curses goes back one generation from the one it is pronounced on. (That is why Noah cursed Canaan to affect his son Ham, who had looked and laughed on Noah's nakedness. Gen 9:18-27) If Moses's son was not a part of the covenant and cut off from his people, how could God exalt Moses in front of all of Israel? The son had to be made part of the covenant for Moses to fulfill his own destiny. Moses could stand on all the promises God had given to him, but until he fulfilled all the conditions, they could not be made manifest. It was a matter of the life or death of Moses that the small detail be taken care of immediately. So it is today, it is the small details that don't always seam of a high priority that unlock the door of opportunity to a major change in the direction of our own life.

The second form of old business that trips us up if left unheeded is things that have been dealt with that we allow to remain; old sin that has been confessed that we still carry guilt or condemnation for, old wounds that we keep pulling the scab off instead of letting it heal, living in the past instead of the present, replaying the "Old moves" of God instead of being aware of what God is doing today. The past is just that - the past. We can look at it and learn from it. It provides valuable lessons that cannot be learned any other way. We need to deal with unfinished events, to bring them to completion. The past is not to be used to beat ourselves up with. If we have done wrong confess, repent, and move on. We may have to revisit old sins as we see new aspects of the sin. This will be a specific area not a general uneasiness. We treat the specific like any other sin and move on. A general feeling of uneasiness is usually a forerunner of an attack of guilt or condemnation we don't need. If an old wound is being "picked at' look for the lie the enemy has attached to it, seek God for the truth of the situation, move on. If we are looking back to "what was", look for the fear that stops you going forward. Find what God has to say about that fear, stand on His word, and face the present and the future. If you are looking to the "past moves of God' instead of tuned in to what He is doing now look at life and see if you are running away from God and find out why. We were never meant to live in the past. We are made in God's image, The "I am that I am."

Motives and attitudes have to be examined and adjusted consistently. I can clean a gas burner on a stove, which is a very good thing; but if I don't rinse the old soap off it will clog the burner and prevent it from functioning as it is meant to. It can even become a hazard, if the gas is turned on but the pilot light can not ignite the gas because old soap is blocking the holes. So it is with the moves of God. We will not be able to catch the new fire if the old soap is blocking the way.
 

Lois Karengin Hislamb@pacbell.net
 

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