Wow, it's a new day, another new year (today's RST is based on Max Lucado's God Came Near pp. 50, 51); truly a clean slate. But perhaps you don't feel that way; perhaps in the cellar of your heart lurk the ghosts of sins past, errors of which you've repented, wrongs you've done your best to right, damage you've tried to patch...
Do yourself a favor. Purge your cellar. Exorcise your basement. Then take the Roman nails of Calvary's cross and board up the door. Permanently. Don't go back there; you don't need to. He truly forgives and forgets--maybe you ought to give yourself a break and do the same.
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 43:18-19
"You will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea." Micah 7:19
"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal..." Philippians 3:13,14
"God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:17
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