If anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation. The old has gone, the new is here!
I sometimes wonder about re-creation and reconciliation. God has forgiven me for times when I have hurt those around me pretty seriously. But the memory of my actions is a part of who I am. My self-reproach keeps me acting in the way I know God wants me to act, the way I want to act. My self-inflicted sorrow over those events helps me to become more fully the person I was created to be.
I am a new creation because of Christ's love, God's forgiveness. But in the words of Star Trek V (yes, the bad one)....our pain is what makes us who we are.
So how do I intertwine God's forgiveness and reconciliation and newness with my own memory - and my own growth that is dependent on remembering my sin?
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