Our theme today is selective forgetting
What else should we forget?
It is useful to forget all kinds of injustice that we have suffered at the hands of people, because our Creator has allowed it to happen to us in order to see how we react to it. He tested the people of Israel in the wilderness for 40 years in ancient times to find out how the people behave in trials. He did that only to learn the true thoughts of their hearts and ultimately to do them good, as written in Deut. 8:16.
As required in the Lord's Prayer, we must forgive all those who have transgressed against us in some way. It is even a requirement and condition for our heavenly Father to forgive us too, because we have transgressed against him with our sins and bad deeds. This is evident from verses Matt. 6:14-15.
Many who were in the chains of paganism and in the grips of various heresies need to unlearn and be freed from such things. It can be a long process depending on the case. With the help of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures of the Bible, it will succeed perfectly if that person humbly agrees to learn what Adonai Yeshua teaches him. The person who has received the Salvation message is a new creation in Hamashiach Yeshua. What was old is gone and the new has come in its place. 2 Cor. 5:17.
It is also useful for us to forget all kinds of party political and other human-oriented ideologies, as well as such dreams, wishes, plans and delusions, which are not acceptable from our Savior's point of view. Everyone has them and forgetting them gives an inner peace that we haven't experienced before! 1 John 2:15-17.
Therefore, it is also necessary that we need the power of the Holy Spirit to be able to forget the things listed above, and it happens in such a way that we purposefully fight at the level of our thoughts against all the evil thoughts that the Devil feeds us from the heavenly spaces! For that we need the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim!
P.S. Fittingly, I had a dream last night where I was walking in an area where Vikings had lived in ancient times. Surprisingly, I found a big double-edged sword on the ground! When I picked it up, I was very surprised at how heavy it was! It was all metal. I struggled to lift it up with one hand. When I woke up in the morning, I remembered the verse in Heb. 4:12.
It is a great grace to be able, with Elohim's permission and request, to forget our past adversities, our falls and our mistakes, which each of us has on our conscience. If we have brought them all with humble hearts to our Savior Adonai Yeshua, repenting of all our sins and transgressions, then his forgiveness is complete!
Since the creation of mankind, our Heavenly Father has known us humans to be lost and fallible, like sheep in need of a Good Shepherd. That is why he has made our Savior perfect through his great pains and sufferings. Hebrew 2:10
>>For it was fitting for him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.<<What else should we forget?
It is useful to forget all kinds of injustice that we have suffered at the hands of people, because our Creator has allowed it to happen to us in order to see how we react to it. He tested the people of Israel in the wilderness for 40 years in ancient times to find out how the people behave in trials. He did that only to learn the true thoughts of their hearts and ultimately to do them good, as written in Deut. 8:16.
As required in the Lord's Prayer, we must forgive all those who have transgressed against us in some way. It is even a requirement and condition for our heavenly Father to forgive us too, because we have transgressed against him with our sins and bad deeds. This is evident from verses Matt. 6:14-15.
Many who were in the chains of paganism and in the grips of various heresies need to unlearn and be freed from such things. It can be a long process depending on the case. With the help of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures of the Bible, it will succeed perfectly if that person humbly agrees to learn what Adonai Yeshua teaches him. The person who has received the Salvation message is a new creation in Hamashiach Yeshua. What was old is gone and the new has come in its place. 2 Cor. 5:17.
It is also useful for us to forget all kinds of party political and other human-oriented ideologies, as well as such dreams, wishes, plans and delusions, which are not acceptable from our Savior's point of view. Everyone has them and forgetting them gives an inner peace that we haven't experienced before! 1 John 2:15-17.
Some say, "We have forgiven people who have done us harm, but we will never forget them!" Complete forgiveness also requires forgetting, and besides, remembering unpleasant things is energy-consuming.
It is quite clear that the Devil does not want us to forget the things mentioned above, because then we will become much more acceptable and noble vessels for our Savior's use to win human souls to the Kingdom of Heaven!
Therefore, it is also necessary that we need the power of the Holy Spirit to be able to forget the things listed above, and it happens in such a way that we purposefully fight at the level of our thoughts against all the evil thoughts that the Devil feeds us from the heavenly spaces! For that we need the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim!
P.S. Fittingly, I had a dream last night where I was walking in an area where Vikings had lived in ancient times. Surprisingly, I found a big double-edged sword on the ground! When I picked it up, I was very surprised at how heavy it was! It was all metal. I struggled to lift it up with one hand. When I woke up in the morning, I remembered the verse in Heb. 4:12.
>>For the word of Elohim is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.<<
What all must we not forget?
The most important thing is to remember all the valuable lessons that the Holy Spirit has taught us from the Bible, and especially those that he has underlined just for us, so that we never forget them while walking on earth! This reminded me of an incident from 1977. I was then volunteering at Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim. The following happened unexpectedly:
One afternoon I traveled by bus to Jerusalem and just before sunset I went to the so-called The Garden Tomb next to Gordon's Calvary, carved into the rock, as to say goodbye to Israel. That was because I had to return to Finland soon and thought that I might never return to that tomb again. I felt in my heart that this was the real tomb of our Savior.
I was the only visitor and the only person in the burial chamber. I prayed, "My dear Savior, give me a Bible verse to remember when I leave here. Thank you!" I felt a call in my heart to open the Bible and he will speak to me. I opened the Bible at random and it opened at Deut. 4:9 and its words hit my consciousness like a flowing and peaceful love!
>>Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren!<<
Adonai Yeshua could hardly have given me a more appropriate Bible verse than that, for I was sitting right in his grave opposite the stone slab on which his dead body had once been laid. So I saw the tomb empty. HalleluYah!
It is also good to remember the people through whom the Most High has helped us, guided us and supported us in different phases of our lives. I've noticed that certain objects that my loved ones have given me always remind me of the givers, for example when I'm cleaning the bookshelf and looking at those gifts. Then I always bless them with gratitude!
Since each of us faces many kinds of difficulties in this Evil world and end times, it is comforting to remember the thousands of Promises of Grace that our Creator and Redeemer has given us in the Bible as support and confirmation of our faith, that we'll not loose hope in tribulations.
YHWH shall erase all the former from our minds
When we finally get to the heavenly home after the trial of faith, the Most High will not only wipe away all our tears there, but he will also wipe away all the causes of our tears and all our former anxieties from our minds so that they will never be remembered again. HalleluYah! Isaiah 65:17, Jer. 3:16 and Rev. 7:17.
Isaiah 65:17 >>For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.<<
Jer. 3:16 >> In those days, your population will greatly increase in the land. At that time," says YHWH, "people will no longer talk about having the ark that contains YHWH's covenant with us. They will not call it to mind, remember it, or miss it. No, that will not be done any more.<<
Rev. 7:17 >>"...because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and Elohim will wipe away every tear from their eyes."<<
Songs suitable for the topic
When God Has Another Plan
He Knows My Name
Empty me Lord
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