Forget Painstaking -- He Takes Care of Your Past

"If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it." (AA, pg 83)

The past is nothing to God, because Jesus took all the pains for our past:

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

Jesus is the Mercy Seat, or the full payment, for not just our sins, but the sins of the whole world:

"1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 JOhn 2: 1-2)

Jesus is our Advocated today, representing us at the right hand of God the Father, and we are in Christ:

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" (Ephesians 2: 4-6)

and

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

In Christ, we have received His righteousness, His standing, and all that He is lives within us.

Because we are in Christ, God the Father does not see us, and He does not see our sin:

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10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 8: 10-12)

 

God does not remember our sins because He has remembered them once and for all forever in the body of His Son Jesus Christ.

 

God does not forgive us out of pity of sentiment, but out of righteousness, because Jesus paid for it:

 

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1: 9)

 

God is faithful, honoring what His Son did, and He is just, because Jesus paid for all our sins. If God still remembered our sin, He would be unjust, in that He would not honor what His Son did for us at the Cross, remembering and bearing our sin!

 

Forget about painstaking development. Beloved child of God. Jesus took all the pain, and He has taken care of your past.