YOU CAN NOT PULL A SNAKE BACKWARDS

My thoughts were sifting through some memories. I remembered a story from when I had three small children and we were living in an old farm house which needed much repair. We kept the upstairs closed off because there were missing floorboards which needed replaced. One day my husband heard the sounds of slide bump slide bump and went to check it out. There was a six foot black snake under the floor boards with about three inches of tail sticking out. My husband was a very strong man and he grabbed the snake with a pair of vice grips and tried to pull the snake backwards and he could not, no matter how much strength he applied. The only way you can pull a snake backwards is if you can lift him up first because his under scales will catch on the boards and anchor him. You simply can not pull a snake backwards and it occurred to me that is exactly what the snake does to us. He pulls us backwards into our past and our failures. He says see there....... all the times you prayed and God did not listen and something died, a loved one, health, finances, a dream etc. He tries to defeat us with our past to impair us traveling with success to our future. My husband had to tear up the floor at the snakes head to get him out. We too have to go for the head of the snake and remind him we have no past. It is not only forgiven by God but forgotten as well. No you can not pull a snake backwards but you can cut off his head......just some life memories....God bless, Linda