The power to overcome past hurt

The past has a profound effect on our present situation. Therefore there are things back there that we need to overcome. Racism is one of those things that keeps popping up; and it will also bring along it's close cousin prejudice. There bring hurt to us on the mental and spiritual level. Past relationships can also comeback to hurt us. The religious crowd has even caused hurt to come our way from time to time. These past hurts cause us to become too cautious in moving forward. But there is good news Messiah has come! Jesus hasn't come to put a band aid on it but to heal the hurt if we will let Him. Part of that power to overcome is to share the healing with the same people who have hurt us. A testimony of others who have overcome is powerful help to overcome the hurt of the past. Past hurts want to make us battle them, but Jesus is the one we should send to deal with it verses embracing the hurt and making it worse.