Pack Your Bags and Get Out of Here

I was talking to a friend yesterday about a recent trial she had encountered.  We talked about how there is so much guilt when we fall but as they say in Celebrate Recovery, the failure isn't in falling, the failure is staying there instead of picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and getting back on the right road.  

When we do fall, if we are lucky, we will feel remorse.  We know it is something we shouldn't have done but we did.  And it is after the fall that we are so fragile.  It is during those fragile times that our enemy sees an opening for attack because our minds are so vulnerable.  But don't think that's the only time the ol nasty devil will attack, he is a master at constant bombardment of our minds with our past mistakes.  

"Remember when you ....... (you fill in the blank with something you regret)?  I just want to remind you not to do it again," we "hear" in our minds.   Has that ever happened to you?  It has me, TONS of times.  A couple years ago,  God led me to a scripture so I would recognize where the "voice" in my head was coming from.  

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more...Hebrews 8:12.

The "I" in this scripture is referring to God.   God forgives us of our wickedness AND REMEMBERS OUR SINS NO MORE!  For years and years, I thought that "voice" in my head was God reminding me of something I did so I wouldn't do it again but let me point out something: you can't remind someone of something if you don't remember it!  God isn't a liar and when He says he doesn't remember it no more, well, He doesn't remember it no more!  That's a fact Jack!  Let me say that again: how can someone remind you of something when THEY DON'T REMEMBER IT?!?  They can't!  

It is our enemy, the slimy little serpent; the one who comes to kill, steal, and destroy, that wants to remind us of our past mistakes.  It is his nasty ol self that plants regret, sorrow and negative thoughts in our minds so we will stay in bondage to our past.  But let me share another little nugget of gold with you: John 8:36 reads "So if the Son (Jesus) sets you free, YOU ARE FREE INDEED!  Those chains of regret that have been bound around your neck (and in your MIND), well, those heavy suckers are GONE!  You don't have to live in your past IN YOUR MIND because you, my friend, are a NEW CREATION (2 Corinthians 5:17).  

So when those dirty old memories begin creeping in, speak the word of God to the devil and remind him that you've been forgiven and if God remembers it no more, then neither do you!  So tell the devil to pack his bags and get out of your mind because no longer are you bound to your past because you are FREE!  This takes hard work and discipline to overcome what I call "stinking thinking" but YOU CAN DO IT!  How do I know?  Because I did and if I can do it, ANYBODY can!!!  Let today be the first day in which you evict the devil from your thoughts and live in the freedom and victory Christ died for!

Until next time...