Don't be ashamed of your past!

Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews. ¹² After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand. (Exodus 2:11-12 NLT).

Moses was a murderer.

Now Jephthah of Gilead was a great warrior. He was the son of Gilead, but his mother was a prostitute. (Judges 11:1 NLT). Jephthah is recorded in the bible as one of Israel’s judges. But the writer of Judges introduces him as a child of a whore.

So the next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and gave it to Uriah to deliver. ¹⁵ The letter instructed Joab, “Station Uriah on the front lines where the battle is fiercest. Then pull back so that he will be killed.” ¹⁶ So Joab assigned Uriah to a spot close to the city wall where he knew the enemy’s strongest men were fighting. ¹⁷ And when the enemy soldiers came out of the city to fight, Uriah the Hittite was killed along with several other Israelite soldiers.
(2 Samuel 11: 14-17 NLT).

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. ²⁷ When the period of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to the palace, and she became one of his wives. Then she gave birth to a son. But the Lord was displeased with what David had done. 
(2 Samuel 11: 26-27 NLT).

David was a shepherd boy and a murderer.

Saul was one of the witnesses, and he agreed completely with the killing of Stephen. (Acts 8:1). ³ But Saul was going everywhere to destroy the church. He went from house to house, dragging out both men and women to throw them into prison. (Acts 8:1 & 3 NLT).

¹⁰And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; I not only locked up many of the saints (God’s people) in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being condemned to death, I cast my vote against them. ¹¹ And I often punished them [making them suffer] in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme; and in my extreme rage at them, I kept hunting them even to foreign cities [harassing and persecuting them]. (Acts 26: 10-11 AMP)

Saul was a murderer.

Simon Peter was a fisherman.

The world looks at the your past to determine your future. God looks at your past and says you are more than qualified for the future. Don’t be ashamed of your past!

If God can use Moses, Jephthah, David, Paul and Peter- He can use you!

Your past is not a barrier to the future. 

Don’t let the devil remind you of your past. Whenever the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future:  "Get away from me! You are under God's curse. Go into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels! (Matthew 25:41 Contemporary English Version).