Memories – our best comfort or our worst enemy.

Do you have a memory that gives you joy?

Or does it rob you of your joy?

Do you use your memories to keep you from repeating a mistake?

Or are you like many of us who allow memories of past mistakes keep us from going forward?

Psalm 103:11-12

11For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear him;

12as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

God has forgiven us and removed our sins.

However the enemy brings those sins to our mind and uses it against us, to stop us from using our gifts that God gave to us.

God gave us the memories so that we don’t forget His love and from where he has brought us.  However Satan takes those very same memories and tells us we cannot succeed, why would someone like us, be used for the good of God. 

One of my favorite Christian songs is by Casting Crowns;

“. . . . . And they laugh at me

Reminding me of all the times

I've tried before and failed

The waves they keep on telling me

Time and time again. "Boy, you'll never win!"

"You'll never win!"

[Chorus]

But the voice of truth tells me a different story

The voice of truth says, "Do not be afraid!"

The voice of truth says, "This is for My glory"

Out of all the voices calling out to me

I will choose to listen and believe the voice of truth”

If God can forgive me, I guess I better start forgiving myself.

Hugs

SJ