My eleven year old niece was riding to church with me and asked, "Aunt Paula, can I ask you a question? What do you do when you have done something wrong and have asked forgiveness but the memory of it keeps coming to your mind?" Her question rocked me. At the time I was going through my own struggle with guilt, but she is not even a teenager yet. It showed me the enemy does not wait until we are adults to start tormenting us with guilt and shame. He tries to get his ugly tormenting thoughts into our mind as soon as he can.
I explained through my own experience that condemnation was one of Satan's greatest tools he uses against us. It is an attack on our mind. Although we wish many times we could go back and change some things, some of the choices we make do have consequences, but if you have done all you can do to make it right, then you have to believe that what the devil would like to use to destroy us God will turn it for our good, whether it be a lesson learned, or to lead us toward a different path, or make new friends. The Bible tells to cast down every thought that is not from God as it comes into our mind. Even if we have to physically take our hand and pretend to pull something out of our head. We have to do whatever it takes to tear down those thoughts that try to destroy our peace of mind.
2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become
new."
Why do you think God wants us to be new creations? Because He does not want your past to be a part of you anymore!
Psalms 103:12, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us."
Now that our past failures have been forgiven, we need to leave them there and press forward towards the things God has for us:
Philippines 3:13, "...this one thing I do, forgetting those things
which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are
before."
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