Ezekiel 18:21 · World English Bible
But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
No one is locked into his past. The self-image can be redrawn, and the whole striving mechanism swings to serve the new picture the moment the aim itself changes.
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No one is locked into his past. The self-image can be redrawn, and the whole striving mechanism swings to serve the new picture the moment the aim itself changes. Turning from the old pattern is not cosmetic; it resets what a person moves toward.
Here the change counts only when it reaches the conduct, keeping the LORD's statutes and doing what is right, not merely wishing. And the promise waits at the end of that turn: he shall surely live. When a man stops rehearsing the old self and starts acting from the new one, the life that follows is a different life.
Cybernetics lens
What would I do differently today if my past were not a prediction?
Someone who was careless and becomes careful is like the moon coming out from behind clouds. The earlier darkness does not follow it.
You can begin again at any moment. However many times you have fallen back, the next act is still free to be a different one.
Turning is not regret alone. It means leaving the old road and walking a different one, and the change is counted in the walking.
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