‘He cancelled the record of the charges against us.’ Colossians 2:14 NLT
Jesus ‘cancelled the record of the charges against us… by nailing it to the Cross.’ The word ‘cancel’ means to remove, to neutralise, to offset something. Have you ever got most of the way through a project and wished you could start over? Suppose you were building a shed, and you step back and look at it all. At the beginning, it seemed fine. But now you think it might have been better in a different spot. Many of us feel that way about life. We’ve all made mistakes that we’d just like to wipe away and start over. Failures, problems, bad decisions—we’ve all got a few we’ve suffered from. But some of us can’t let go of the past, and, as a result, we let the past limit our present opportunities.
Some people live in a state of regret, continually lamenting, ‘If only I hadn’t done that’ or ‘If only I had made these changes.’ They repeatedly second-guess themselves. And they are tormented by painful memories. ‘I blew it, and I’m going to be paying for it for the rest of my life.’ You may choose to carry guilt, but you don’t have to! The moment you put your trust in Christ, He ‘cancels the record’ of your past.
Actually, you no longer have a past; you only have a future! You can lay down, once and for all, your heavy load of guilt, old hurts, and memories of mistakes. Jesus ‘took it away by nailing it to the Cross.’ God has promised to ‘blot out your sins… and will never think of them again.’ (Isaiah 43:25 NLT) You must too!
SoulFood: Is 42–44, Jn 8:1–13, Ps 96, Prov 28:17–20
Renungan Hari Ini [The Word for Today] is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright ©