A Daily Devotional About when God's love does not erase a painful memory� Psalm 63:3 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. 4 I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. (NIV) God's love can do many miracles. However, God's love may not erase a painful memory you want erased. Although God's love does not erase a painful memory, what His love can do is place your heart and mind at ease when the painful memory comes to you. You may remember a time or an event you want erased, but even if the painful memory is not erased, God's love will bring you peace when you remember. You may remember a painful time or a painful event you want erased, but even if the memory is not erased, God's love will bring you power to be more and do more than you ever thought possible when the painful memory appears. A painful memory you want erased may remain, but God's love can give you new pleasant memories to store up and new pleasant memories to recall�new wonderful memories standing in stark contrast to your painful memories. We need not be haunted by our past if we will let the love of God filter into our present. Although there are times, places, and circumstances we want to forget, when we hold God's love in our heart, the times, places, and circumstances of our present take on a new meaning, a new purpose, and new glow. God may not erase our painful memory of the past. What God does do is walk with us in the present to use our past as a teacher and guide about who we are to be and what we are to do in the present. God's love may not erase your memory of your past, but His love does make new pleasant memories out of your present. His love produces joy, peace, laughter, and something out of nothing. His love produces present memories to erase the sting and hurt of past memories, even as we recall the hurtful facts of the past. |
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