REMEMBER those yellow highlighters
that underline those words
that you need to REMEMBER to study
so they stay in your mind.
Oh you go back and keep reading them
until they become part of you
so that you will never FORGET.
Oh how those yellow highlighters can be a weapon
when they underline those things of the past
that you keep reading & reading & reading
so that they become a part of you
but not a good part.
What do you have HIGHLIGHTED that you don't want to FORGET?
What do you have HIGHLIGHTED that no one will let you FORGET?
Is it
~ A wounded heart
~A I wish I didn't do this or that
~A I wish they didn't do this or that?
What if instead
you took a big fat red sharpie
and covered the yellow so that you can
REMEMBER TO FORGET
because that is what GOD has done
the moment JESUS cried out
"IT IS FINISHED"
so that
GOD
REMEMBERS TO FORGET~
"Therefore, since we have now been justified [declared free of the guilt of sin]
by HIS blood, [how much more certain is it that]
we will be saved from the wrath of GOD" (Romans 5:9)
TO FORGET~
"To lose out of mind" (logos)
TO FORGET~
To Remember Not
To not keep Regurgitating
To not keep picking off the scab of a bruise.
TO FORGET~
"forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead" (Philippians 3:13)
Doesn't a clock
REMEMBER TO FORGET
the PAST as it continues to move forward with every tick
as time never stops for anyone.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Forward motion.
Another second gone.
A second that becomes today's yesterday.
A glorious second
to live in when we
REMEMBER TO FORGET~
“Forget the former things; Do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!” (Isaiah 43:18)
REMEMBER TO FORGET
because
Dwelling on & Fixating on
THE PAST
inhibits you from facing the future.
Isn’t the future
the unknowns of tomorrow & the “what ifs"
that we fear?
But how do we FORGET something that we did or someone else did~
as doesn't THE PAST
become a part of you & I
because it did happen?
But
dwelling on yesterday
& the day before that
& the day before that
is like going up a down escalator,
as it keeps you in the same place.
You & I can't remove our PAST.
What do you need to say goodbye to that is following you everywhere
infecting the present
because you just can't FORGET?
Can you
REMEMBER TO FORGET
because
of the
ONE who came to
"Heal the brokenhearted" (Luke 4:18)
so that when
you & I look back to
THE PAST
with
JESUS
it doesn't hurt anymore.
REMEMBER TO FORGET~
"I press on toward the goal to win the [heavenly] prize of
the upward call of GOD in CHRIST JESUS" (Philippians 3:14)
Thank YOU GOD for REMEMBERING TO FORGET~
"Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all HIS benefits—
who forgives all your sins & heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit & crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s"
(Psalm 103:2-5)
Because
HE REMEMBERS & makes
"ALL THINGS NEW" (listen to the song below)