“Do not remember the sins of my youth” is the psalmist
plea to God for the sins the psalmist cannot forget. It is often true for us as
well. The sins of the past haunt the present and color the future a darker
shade of grey. Even those of us who claim grace abounds and that God forgives ad
forgets find ourselves mired in the mud of the past where we willfully decided
to step off the path of the Lord and reject the ways that were made known to
us. But God, mindful of mercy, is always present to shed light on that which we
prefer to hide so that in the confession of regret and guilt and shame God
might make “a new beginning from the ashes of our past.” (We Are Baptized in
Christ Jesus by John Yilvisaker) When God instructs sinners in the way the
first lesson is that whoever we were and whatever we may have done or left
undone has been forgotten and no longer defines our present or predicts our
future for when we put on Christ we are a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
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