Humiliated?

Good Wednesday morning! What did you do back in the day? I know you did something especially humiliating. Probably something that you cannot believe everyone else has forgotten about. In your daily life, something else will trigger that memory. The humiliation returns in all of its pain. You wonder whatever could have caused you to commit such an embarrassing act. It is likely that I cannot even guess what this act might involve. What embarrassed you back in the day might seem like small potatoes to me. If I related some story that makes me squirm with embarrassment even now, you might wonder what the big deal was and why I am even bothered by it. On the other hand, if either of our incidents involved the police, lawyers, and news reporters then we might well understand the other person's problem. We all have things in our past that we would rather not have reviewed by a committee, or worse, by the public in general. Even if the committee would unanimously agree that the incident was a 'so what' in their opinion, we recall the emotional pain and suffer with it for a bit more. What if all of those awful incidents in your past could be just erased? Deleted from the common consciousness and especially from your own? At first that seems a bit far-fetched, if not downright impossible. But that is exactly what God says when He forgives our sins.

How can God, who knows everything, just forget completely about our worst moments? Many of those moments involve some of our worst sins (at least by our crooked estimation) too! How far is the east from the west anyway? Of course, the Lord is not talking about some circling of the globe. If you go east, you will never get west. That is how far God puts our sins away from His memory. You and I cannot easily forget things, except for those things we really want to remember that is, but God can choose to never again recall a sin we have committed. That is just amazing to me.

Imagine the worst thing that has happened in your life. Right, we don't have to imagine it; the worst things in our lives we cannot forget. The second worst things that happen to our Lord are when we rebel against Him. That is called sin. The worst thing was when He went to the cross to pay for all of that sin of course. When that sin is forgiven, God puts that event so far away from Himself that He cannot recall it. If we bring those forgiven events before God again, He not only does not recall the sin, but tells us to give it to Him. The Accuser does like to parade our worst faults before us. When that happens, give them to God once more. You and I certainly don't need to add past pain to what we have to endure each day!

God loves you and so do I; have a wonderful new day in Christ!

 

Bucky