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"FORGETTING & REMEMBERING"
Paul saw the importance of forgetting, but, what did the apostle forget? You know he didn't forget his knowledge
of the scriptures. He, certainly, didn't forget about God's amazing grace. By all means, he didn't forget about
the things that happened to him on the road to Damascus, when he had an encounter with the Lord and was forever
changed.
He forgot the bad things…the things that he could not change…the things that would hold him back from doing the
Lord's work on earth. It's true, Paul never forgot that he had persecuted the church, but he found a way to put
it in a place where it moved him forward and not backward. He used it to his advantage and not his disadvantage.
He used it as a confirmation that what he was now teaching was the truth. He turned his greatest liability into
his greatest asset.
It's human nature…we often remember what we should forget and forget what we should remember. The Hebrew writer,
in 12:1 admonishes us to "…lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with
endurance the race that is set before us…" If there is something in our past that is holding us back from righteous
living, then, we need to let it go.
Let's never forget God's will for us and the great promises He has made. We need never forget the sacrifice that
Christ made for us, and that by that sacrifice we could be cleansed from our sins. We should always remember the
day when we, like Paul, were forever changed.
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Neely's Bend Church of Christ
1502 Neely's Bend
Madison, Tennessee 37115
Phone (615) 865-1836
Email us here
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