Erasing My History

 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5:17

I have history, stories I would like to bury. I have chapters of my life's story I wish I could erase.  As I thought about this and the Grace we receive from God, I had a friend years ago that described Grace this way, just as if I had never done it. My sins are washed away. They are removed as far as the East is from the West. I remember my stories. But if God has forgiven them, my sins, he no longer remembers them. They are erased from the books that will be examined on judgment day. I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books. Revelation 20:12.  My bad stories the ones I want to erase they involve sins that I committed. It is like erasing history, God forgives my sins and they are remembered no more. Charles Stanley says to ask God to remove those things from our memory. Replace it with God's mercy and grace. Paul who was called Saul was a persecutor of Christians until he had his encounter with God.  He was forgiven, and he went on to write even the scripture above from 2 Corinthians. He turned a 180 in his life. He started walking in a different direction. God forgave and in the Books described in Revelation, God erased part of his history. That is why I think I need to bury some of those stories, the bad history, the stories where I sinned. The stories that have been forgiven. We don't need to carry those burdens, they were lifted off of our shoulders at the cross when Jesus came into our hearts.  We really have become a new person.  We remember but God doesn't. God has erased it from our story that he will look at on judgment day. Jesus has already forgiven us of our past if we have turned our lives and hearts over to him. If we have repented of our sins. They are gone with the history.  The writer of Amazing Grace, the slave trader turned Christian, was forgiven and a new story was written. A story of Grace and Mercy.  I am thankful for Grace, receiving what I did not deserve or earn, and for Mercy, not receiving what I did deserve and earned. Thank you Jesus for a new life that began the minute I repented of my sins. Thank you for erasing some of my histories in the Books that record in heaven. Just as if I never did it. God bless, LVZ.