I want a heart that has been touched so deeply by God’s personal forgiveness, that the idea of withholding forgiveness becomes a ridiculous, unacceptable alternative. Your Father never goes back fishing into that abyss to revisit your sins, so let’s stop going back to revisit others’ sins. God then dropped your sins into a deep abyss and planted a “No fishing” sign. When you surrendered and placed your full trust and dependence on Jesus, you were immediately washed clean of the Past. And he sure doesn’t want you doing the same for others. “As far as the east is from the west?” Satan doesn’t want you to think about that. … 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”-Ps. 9 He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever 10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. “The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. Your Heavenly Father wants you to appropriate his Divine Forgetfulness into your Present: Satan so often uses past hurts, but you can let go of those past hurts, motivated by the fact that God has let go of your sins toward others. Failing that, he will never stop trying to distract you and discourage you, in order to destroy the “Life to the Full” 3 Jesus has for you. 2 If he can keep you out of a saving relationship with Jesus, he will destroy your soul. Never forget his 3-D strategy: Destroy, distract, and discourage. I’m going to have to let go of what others have done.īut Satan will always seek to mire me in quicksand by reminding me. If I want to “ take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me,” 1 I’m going to have to let go of the past. I had not thought about it, or them, in a long time. Suddenly a memory of something someone did to me barges into my Present. The Upstate air was incredibly fresh and I was vibrating at a high frequency. The sun was fading, the shadows were falling, and it was quiet. It was late afternoon, my favorite time to walk. One day I was walking with my beloved Golden, Fannie, and I was one with the world. “Don’t wiggle around!” I shout at the TV, because everyone knows doing that will just make you sink faster. Do you remember the old Tarzan TV shows? The safari crowd is moving through the jungle and suddenly someone steps in the dreaded quicksand.
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