My Past Swallowed Up in God

Psa. 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Years ago, Parris and I lived in Phoenix, Arizona. At that time we couldn’t afford to buy a dog, so we went to the animal shelter and got one. This dog looked beautiful, but the poor creature was really messed up. He had some big time baggage. I have no idea what his past was like, but often, while we were just sitting around, this dog would go into a fit. He would run wildly, spinning in circles and frothing at the mouth; then he would fall to the ground. After a few minutes of this, he would sit down and act like a normal dog again. Of course, since we had little babies in our house, we had to return the dog after a few of these episodes. There’s no telling what that dog had experienced that would cause him to have those fits.
Maybe some of you are a little like this dog. You look OK on the outside, like everyone else, but occasionally you just take off and have a fit. Everyone thinks you’re normal, but it’s just a big show. Inside you just hope you can hold it together.
The Bible says that the blood of Jesus is able to cleanse our consciences, our memories of our past lives and the horrible things that have been done to us. I don’t know what kind of abuse you experienced or what kind of baggage you’re carrying around. I don’t know why you twitch the way you twitch. But I do know that when you get swallowed up by God, it will be as if that old life never happened. Sometimes people want to dig up the past and start talking about the horrible things that happened to them. They start describing all these events in great detail. Before long, everybody is crying. I was in one service where they had an altar call for people who had been abused in their mothers’ wombs. People came up to the altar and were brought through a process of so called deliverance. They simulated being birthed and falling into a blanket, and as they did this, they were screaming out all sorts of things. This was supposed to be a renewal service, but what no one seemed to realize was that all that baggage from their past had already been swallowed up by the Lord.