The sun rises, sets and rises again and another day is before us. Today, we may have to suffer the consequences of our past, but life goes on. We may have new problems, but if we have learned from the past, we will do better in the "now" than we did in the "then"!
The early church in Corinth (Greece) had problems, but they had already overcome so much sin that there was a great deal of hope for their future. The apostle Paul writes to them....
1 Corinthians, Chapter 6 (World English Bible)
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 2 Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? 4 If then you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly? 5 I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers? 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers. 9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. 11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. (emp. added, vs. 11 GDR)
This little picture expresses the attitude of many of those early Christians and I hope you can say the same. It gives me encouragement and I hope it does the same for you as well!!!