Forgetting

My best friend and I were talking the other day about forgiving and forgetting, and somewhere in the conversation, a cool sense of "getting it" started to hit me. I was beginning to understand an aspect of forgiveness that I had never quite grasped (or even really thought about) before. Let me see if I can write this out in a way that makes sense.

The word forget - it doesn't necessarily mean that you're accidentally losing some piece of information, like when you can't remember where you left your keys. The word "forget" literally means to un-get. It's the opposite of obtaining something. And what I began to understand was that un-getting can be either intentional or unintentional.

I thought about the passage in the Bible where Paul talks about forgetting what's behind and pressing on to what's ahead. This is an intentional forgetting - a letting go of past things and choosing not to dwell on them. It's a choice to dwell in the present. To look forward rather than backwards.

This could be beneficial in more than one way. The Bible says that love keeps no record of wrongs. Choosing to forget the past can mean letting go of something hurtful that someone has done to you. It could also mean letting go of your own past failures and allowing yourself to move forward in freedom. To be where you are and not be held back by where you were.

Good stuff, huh? And it all relates back again to the concept of living in the moment. It's LIFE, experienced to the fullest degree. Remember, the present is where we find God. It's where we grow. It's where we change. It's where we find hope and love and life!

God is good!