Satan is called ‘the accuser’, and he will try to keep you focused on your past. He can hurt you every day unless you accept God’s forgiveness, forgive yourself, and move forward. At the cross, Jesus bore both your sin and shame, but Satan wants you to keep carrying them. Where can you find an answer? Look at these Scriptures: 1) ‘For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind’ (v. 17 NKJV). You say, ‘But that’s in the future.’ True. But the Bible says we have already ‘tasted…the powers of the world to come’ (Hebrews 6:5 KJV) and that our lives can be like ‘days of heaven upon the earth’ (Deuteronomy 11:21 KJV). 2) ‘Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert’ (Isaiah 43:18-19 NKJV). 3) ‘Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth’ (Isaiah 54:4 NKJV). You might say, ‘I can’t help but remember!’ Yes, you can! Paul, who killed and imprisoned Christians before becoming an apostle, said: ‘One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus’ (Philippians 3:13-14 NKJV). God can heal your memories, so let the healing begin.

© 2024. Written by Bob and Debby Gass. Used by permission under licence from UCB International.