Wednesday's Devotion: God's Selective Memory

Hebrews 8:12 (GNT) I will forgive their sins and will no longer remember their wrongs.

Psalm 103:12 says in the Contemporary English Version “How far has the LORD taken our sins from us? Farther than the distance from east to west!”
I’ve been watching Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies.  Monday night the story was about a woman at Christmas who had chosen a career in New York over marriage to her home town sweetheart.  Christmas Eve found her  miserable and wishing she could go back eight years when she broke their engagement and have another chance.  Being a movie, an angel happened along and granted her wish.  Someone posted this on Facebook yesterday, “Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over? AMEN, AMEN!” 

The good news is that when we sincerely repent – that involves being intentional about not repeating our sins, God will forgive our sins and wipe the slate clean.  But if we continue in our sin while we are hoping for forgiveness, God will certainly doubt our sincerity. And we must remember this, our sins don’t just come between us and God, most of the time they hurt other people.  We can’t just ‘Ctl Alt Delete’ those consequences away. This Advent season, let’s spend some time mapping out a game plan to truly overcome the compulsions to do things that hurt us and others and that come between us and God.

Precious Lord, take my hand lead me on.  Teach me your ways and guide me along your paths of right living. Forgive my shortcomings, my sins, and help me to live the life I really want to live. I pray in our Savior’s name.  Amen.