Monday, September 24, 2007

Keep Your Past in Your Past

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.

Are you walking in the new? The new Life in Jesus Christ? Or are you stuck in the past as if someone hit the pause button and the old man just keeps "Instant Replaying" over and over in your head?

So how do we really accept the fact that we are brand new in God's eyes? For me, it's making a new recording and asking the Lord to erase the old one that runs through my brain from time to time. It's a daily battle to focus on the new and not remember on the past old sins, habits, negative thought patterns, and fears. We have to see it from God's perspective. He sees us as His Daughters and Sons. We can go to Him and call Him "Abba Father" ~ "Daddy" ~ and it's sweet music to His ears. God has made the way so easy for us. He sent Jesus to die on a cross and take on all our sin and open the way for us to have direct access to Him. All we must do is repent and put our trust in Jesus. His sacrifice was a free gift to us, but it wasn't cheap grace. Jesus was tortured and died, so we could live.

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Will you trust in Jesus today for your salvation? Will you accept His free gift of Life with Him and His Father in everlasting glory? God promises that our sins will be as far as the East is from the West. He'll remember them no more.

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.


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