We all search the web from time to time. The searches lead to saved information that can be used by marketers to put irritating ads all over your internet. Every time you go on the internet you end up bombarded with the annoying junk popping up.
The good thing is...we can do a "clear browser history" and get rid of the cookies that allow this marketers to feed their need to annoy. I like to compare these ads to those little paper cards that fall out of magazines as you are trying to read. Are those not the most irritating things? They fall out and cause me to lose focus on what I'm reading because I feel I have to stop and pick them up off of the floor.
Our past, our failures can be the same way. Satan can use them to draw our focus away from God and His good plans for us. He feeds us with lies throw these unwanted thoughts and "ads" that play in our minds. He will tell us that our history makes us unworthy to be who God wants us to be or do what God wants us to do.
If would be great if we could hit a button to "clear browsing history" wouldn't it? Well, we can't, necessarily, wipe the memories clear but we can let them go. We can train ourselves to refocus on God everything Satan tries to fill us with his evil, twisted ads. It takes work but it can happen.
As humans, it is hard for us to forget our past failures but we don't have to live in them. God says in Hebrews 10:17 NLT, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.” God forgets our sins when we confess and repent. He will never remember...He wipes the memory. He doesn't have a great big book that He keeps records in if we give them to Him. He washes the slate clean and makes us new. He cleans our browsing history.
God doesn't let us forget our past because He wants us to learn and grow from our mistakes. We will, without a doubt, run across someone that will fail the same way. God expects us to use that failure to help others who stumble because of the same issue. "Stand firm against him (Satan), and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are." 1 Peter 5:9 NLT
Satan is watching our "browsing history". He knows where we have been and where the cracks in our foundation are. He uses those "cookies" to feed us with destructive lies and nasty yuck. We can defeat his evil schemes by giving all of the yuck to God. Drop it off, clear the history and keep on moving. Don't let the enemy-sneaky, evil, coward-get in the way of God's truth and promises. God takes what was meant for evil and uses it for good.
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people." Genesis 50:20 NLT
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