In times of failure or regret, the Bible offers hope for a new beginning. According to 2 Corinthians 5:17, those who are in Christ are a new creation, and Hebrews 12:1 encourages believers to lay aside past weights and sins to run with endurance. Isaiah 43:18-19 reminds us not to dwell on past mistakes, but to look forward to the new things God is doing. Jeremiah 29:11 promises that God's plans are to prosper and give hope for the future, and as Hebrews 11:6 teaches, it is by faith that we please God and embark on this new path.
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Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old. Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.