For all the things God does do, there is one thing He refuses to do. He refuses to keep a list of my wrongs. So what good comes from us remembering our sins? And at what point does it become harmful to remember our sins?
The Bible uses several images to depict God's forgiveness of our sins. "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us." Psalm 103:12 "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow: though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.: Isaiah 1:18 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered." Psalm 32:1
We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it. If we accept His grace and fully understand that He cast them into the sea of forgetfullness, (Micah 7:19) then we will see the enemy's trick when he comes to us, accusing us of our past! Yes, we have all been accused and have done the accusing; so we have all been a devil. But know we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities... (Ephesians 6:12)
The next time someone comes to you bringing up your past, remember that the LORD has forgiven you of your sins and it as if they never happened to Him. You therefore have no condemnation in Christ Jesus! And if you find yourself accusing someone of their past, pause and remember, the LORD forgave you and commands us to forgive as He has forgiven us! Anything short of this is in direct disobedience to the LORD. Knowing where disobedience takes us, we don't want to go there.
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