"You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing."
—Phillips Brooks, quoted in Heirlooms. Christianity Today, Vol. 41, no. 7. - Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4.
Joel 2:13 (NKJV) 13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.
Luke 12:35 (NKJV) "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning."
John 15:16 (AMP) You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.
