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I’m glad that my parents didn’t keep of list of my childhood mistakes posted on the refrigerator door.
To know that everybody read every day about every bad choice that I made would be a horrible burden — until I grew sick of it and either stopped caring or stopped living at home, or both.
You know people who seemingly still carry their notepads around with them, waiting to record others’ errors in order to post the news that so and so messed up.
It’s very sad.
Thank God that my family isn’t like this.
And I strive to resist Satan’s whispers to do the same.
The fact is that our responsibility to be a forgiving people will not come true in our lives if we cherish and instantly update the record of sins by someone we know.
We’ll eventually become a bitter, anal person who walks around with a “white glove” mentality, ready to pounce on the first evidence of dust on a person’s life choices.
Boy, what a sad reality.
I can’t tell you how glad I am that God isn’t like this.
It’s not that He closes His eyes to the wrong we do.
It’s just that He doesn’t savor the opportunity to bash us because we’ve messed up.
Yes, we need to repent and confess our sins against Him and against others. That’s how we will find forgiveness, according to I John 1:9.
When we do, the sins are forgiven and the dirty laundry list is washed clean in the blood of Christ.
This fact was refreshed in my mind this morning when I read Psalm 130:3-4 in the One-Year Bible.

“If You, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with You, there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared.”

When we repent and seek forgiveness for our sins, God forgives and wipes the slate clean.
Please rejoice over this fact.
Please grow closer to Him because He does so.
Please strive to do the same for others when they sin against you.
Remember what God has forgiven from your stained past.
And remember to forgive those who have sinned against you.

As always, I love you
Martin

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