“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sin no more.” Isaiah 43:25 (NIV)
Over my lifetime the enemy has been great at reminding me of all my past sins. He is living up to his name in Revelation 12:10, “the accuser of our brothers and sisters.” And while he has been accusing me, I have been listening.
One of the reasons I started this blog is to encourage us to be free in Christ. How do we balance the wrong doings of our past with our freedom in Christ? We don’t!
Recently I have stopped listening to the enemy and have been meditating on a few key scriptures. Allow me to walk you through what I have been doing.
I have a thought enter my mind which makes me feel shame or anger with myself about something I did years ago that was wrong. I then immediately take it to the Lord. I say something like, “Lord, I don’t want to continue to be reminded of this sin. Forgive me. You tell me that if I ‘confess my sin, you are faithful and just and will forgive my sin and purify me from my unrighteousness.’ (I John 1:9 NIV) You also say that ‘you will remember my sin no more.’ If you don’t remember my sin, then I don’t want to remember it either. You said that ‘as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from me.’ (Psalm 103:12 NIV)”
Once I pray that prayer there is no room for the enemy to speak to me. I am doing what James 4:7 says, “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (NIV) I have noticed that the more I do this, the less I hear those accusations.
I know this isn’t usually the way I write a Worship Wednesday, however, I felt led to share this with you today.
We are free in Christ! Declare it aloud today! Walk in the freedom that Christ died for! If He isn’t remembering it, then why should you? One last verse to close with is from Romans 8, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”(Rom. 8:1 NIV)
No condemnation for me and no condemnation for you if you are in Christ! Now how about an “Amen?”
