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Stop Polishing the Past and Start Perceiving the New

Leadership can turn yesterday into a ghost, but dwelling on the past obscures God's present work. Stop polishing old failures and start perceiving the new rescue God offers. He's building something new, even in what feels like a barren wilderness.

Isaiah 43:18-19

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

George B. Thomas
George B. Thomas
Stop Polishing the Past and Start Perceiving the New

You can follow Jesus, lead people, carry real responsibility, and still wake up with a knot in your stomach. Not because you lack faith, but because leadership has a way of turning yesterday into a ghost that follows you into today.

A comment you wish you could take back. A decision that looked right and landed wrong. A compromise you keep calling "temporary" because facing it feels too costly.

You don't lose your calling because you feel the weight. But you can lose your clarity when you keep staring at what already happened.

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