The Lord doesn’t forget anything but that doesn't mean that he choices to remember. When we come to the Lord asking Him for forgiveness He is never short on forgiving us of our disgusting sins. Something just as great as His forgiveness is that we have a list of zero wrongs. Our list of wrongs is a blank sheet of paper, there is absolutely nothing on it. Even though that is a fact that I know I often forget it. I forget that the Lord makes the choice, not one that He as to make by any means, but He choices to not remember. He is so merciful and He is so incredibly loving that no human being will ever be able to understand it. As humans we tend to walk by emotions, we walk by what we feel and not what we know. I catch myself tripping on my emotions on a daily basis. I forget what I know and I focus on what I feel. This isn't me trying to invalidate emotions, the Lord gave us emotions for a reason, but He never intended on us to focus on them.
If the Lord has forgiven me and I know that He has forgiven me why do I still carry around the regret of my past? Why do I force myself to think about things over and over agin worrying about the what ifs, what if I never did that and did that, et cetera. I need to forgive myself as the Lord has forgiven me. I am not the one and only exceptions to the promises that He gave all of man kind. The Lord choices to forgive me and not remember my past but why can’t I forgive myself and move on? Whenever I find myself thinking back and regretting I need to remember who my Savior is and who I can be for Him right now, not the years that I can’t change, the years I decided to throw away, and the mistakes that I have made. I am a new creation in the Lord. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” 2nd Corinthians 5:16
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