Unshackled Moments ~ June 19, 2018 ~ Our Forgetful Father

Kirk: "Names, Lieutenant!"

Valeris: "I do not remember."

Spock: "A lie?"

Valeris: "A choice."

- Star Trek VI

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

- Ps. 103:12

You  can't do that, not with your past. Who are you trying to fool with the new person act? Don't you remember what you've done? Who are you to try to help anyone? Then comes the list, the long list of all the mistakes, failures, wrong choices and reasons to be ashamed. Or maybe it's just one item from the list flashed in extra-large neon on the billboard of your mind blinding you to the promises of the cross and making you feel worthless and unlovable.

Where does that message come from? Does it feel like it's from God, always reminding you of who  you were and are and how that is not ever going to be good enough? We have all messed up. We are all co-conspirators in a traitorous rebellion against the Lord of All. Our best intentions have failed and our best attempts have only made matters worse. Our accuser stands before us, screaming that we deserve death and should be rejected and discarded. Jesus answers that He does not remember what we've done. He doesn't remember us as enemies and traitors. It's not a lie, for God does not lie. It's a choice.

It is against Daddy's nature of love to remember forgiven sins and hold them against us. I am grateful for his loving forgiveness and His graciously forgetful memory. He has made us new, and in so doing He has chosen to forget the old. Because of this, we don't have to face eternal judgment for our past, and we don't have to listen to, be defined by or limited by it today. We can stand in the face of accusation and not crumble, because if the only example of a perfect being says we are worth everything to Him and chooses not to remember our past nor define us by it, perhaps we should give more weight to His choice than to the voice of accusation that haunts us.


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