"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17
I am not perfect. I have yet to meet that person who is. I have made mistakes in my life. I don't know anyone who hasn't. It has not been easy to get over what I've been through or some things I've done, but I know that I have gotten over it and it is truly in the past. You too can proclaim the same if God has brought you out and has brought you through!
When I reflect on my past, I am undeserving of God's love or His grace but the mere fact that I am in Christ, He states that I am a new creation. My sins have been forgiven and God has removed them from me. "For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." Psalm 103:11-12.
Although God has forgiven you and you are now a new creature in Christ, there are some who will try to throw the past in your face. Who will try their hardest to remind you of the person you once were or the things you did. They will try to prove to themselves and others that you have not changed because they will not allow themselves to see the change in you. Yes, there are persons like that. Those persons will not see you as God sees you. No matter how much you may have changed on the inside and even on the outside, they just cannot let go. But God has and that's all that matters. Don't allow someone to make you feel bad about something you did when you have changed your life and decided to follow Christ. Don't allow someone else to take your joy away. Confess your sins to God, apologize to those you may have hurt, live your life according to God's word and move on. If God, who in all of His glory, the creator of heaven and earth, the one who created us, is now saying you are a new creature in Christ Jesus, who now can tell you otherwise? Who can make you feel bad about your past unless you allow them? No one. No ONE. NO ONE.
If God said it, it is done. Therefore, live your live for Him and no one else. God's word says, "Come now and let us reason together, says the LORD, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18.
There's only one person who will sit at the judgement seat and judge us and that is the Lord Almighty. Let us remember not to be so quick to judge others when they fall or make mistakes.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plankis in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.' Matthew 7:1-5Be blessed and remember God loves you!
