Why should we?
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. (Isaiah 43:25 NIV)
It’s sad how some people say they’re trusting God, yet they worry about the blots and stains on the pages of their past.
Once we have turned to God and confessed our mistakes and wrongdoings and asked for forgiveness, then there’s no need to go picking around in the past and bringing up those things again.
If God doesn’t even remember them, why should we?
I once read a poem that went something like this: “If I could find the road to yesterday, I’d write the page with cleaner pen and wipe out yesterdays.” Well, I don’t want to find the path to yesterday, because I can’t wipe out anything! Only God can cover those mistakes of the past.
Thankfully it isn’t God’s way to make us relive the past. Who would want to when the future is as bright as the wonderful promises of God? With all of those promises, why would anyone want to go back and retrace the past, to walk the road to yesterday?
Forget those things which are behind. Press onward and upward toward the goal and the prize. What a pity if we carry the burden of the past when the Lord paid such a price to lift that burden and set us free! —VBB
When outward strength is broken, faith rests on the promises. In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of trouble and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. —Richard Cecil
[1] Activated Vol 14, Issue 01
