"By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.
The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.
~ 1 Peter 1:3-8
Forgetting one is forgiven seems like a strange thing in a way...it's like the foundation of Christian belief, the shedding of blood for the forgiveness of sins. But it's way more personal that that. Forgetting I have been cleansed from my old sins....some days that is pretty easy to do, especially when those old sins don't seem very old. So what happens if I 'forget'? Are my sins still forgiven? Of course! My lack of brain function or inconvenient guilty conscience doesn't affect God's grace in any way. But it does affect my growth. And my growth affects the people I will inspire to get to know Jesus and follow Him. Pretty tragic, really...the person who walks around, haunted by their past, is not only robbing themselves but everyone around them. God, help me not forget!!!
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