Topic: Keep No Record [David Jeremiah Ministry 20 September   2023 | Turning Point Ministries]

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Keep No Record

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:7

 Recommended Reading: Hebrews 12:14-15

Is it possible to “forgive and forget”? We can choose to forgive, but can we choose to forget? Every time we tell ourselves to forget about an offense we have suffered, it refreshes the emotion of that painful event.

It is possible to forgive and not forget an offense, though in time the offense can become a distant memory. The danger in not forgiving is that forgetting becomes impossible. If we don’t forgive, we replay the offense over and over, keeping it alive in our mind as if it happens afresh every day. Then resentment sets in—and resentment gradually transitions into bitterness, a source of trouble and defilement (Hebrews 12:15). So what do we do? First, we choose to forgive when we are hurt. Then we love by bearing, believing, hoping, and enduring all things (1 Corinthians 13:7). We bear the offense and believe and hope that it will never happen again. We begin each day with a clean slate, keeping “no record of wrongs” (1 Corinthians 13:5, NIV).

Also Read: Open Heaven 20 September  2023  – Topic: GOD’S EVERLASTING ARMS 

If you have been hurt, first forgive, then love. Live as if you have no memory of the wrong suffered.

Forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes

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