Trusting God with Our Past

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In Isaiah God told Israel:

I have wiped out your wrongdoings like a thick cloud
And your sins like a heavy mist.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Isaiah 44:22

In the same chapter, God said:

This is what the Lord says,
He who is your Redeemer,
and the one who formed you from the womb:
“I, the Lord, am the maker of all things,
Stretching out the heavens by Myself . . .

And spreading out the earth alone . . .

. . . Causing the omens of diviners to fail,
Making fools of fortune-tellers;
Causing wise men to turn back
And making their knowledge ridiculous,
Confirming the word of His servant
And carrying out the purpose of His messengers.”
Isaiah 44:24-26a

In Ephesians God tells us:

But God, being rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in our transgressions,
made us alive together with Christ . . .
Ephesians 2:4-5

The One Who is merciful to us and who made us alive together with Christ is the great Creator of the Universe. He is trustworthy.

And yet many a mama has trouble completely trusting in God’s mercy toward her, His forgiveness of her sins. She worries about certain sins from her dark past. Early in the morning before her family wakes up, she lies in bed, suffering in pain and regret. As she walks through her day, she never knows when something will remind her of the THAT she did so long, long ago.

She wonders how she could ever be worthy even to be her children’s mama, let alone their teacher.

“No one would love you if they knew what you did,” Satan whispers in her ear. Forgetting that Jesus said that Satan is a liar and the father of lies, she feels dirty and unworthy. While feeling dirty, she forgets that the one God washes is whiter than snow.

When Jesus talked with the woman who was caught in the very act of adultery, He told her, “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on do not sin any longer” (John 8:11).

After Peter denied His Lord who had chosen him as one of His three closest friends, Jesus told him to feed His sheep.

A few weeks later, when Peter was speaking to a crowd in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, he told them how to be saved after they had killed Jesus.

After Saul (who later was called Paul) stood with his fellow Jews’ garments at his feet and watched them stone Stephen to death, Jesus called him to be the apostle to the Gentiles.

The Maker of all things Who stretched out the heavens by Himself sent His only begotten Son to take care of every sin from her dark past and to give every mama freedom to walk every day believing His truth instead of Satan’s lies.

And He gives her the opportunity to share this wonderful news with her children.

Therefore there is now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1

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