I like to have a look around in the Two Dollar shops. Today I found a magnet to decorate the refrigerator with and on it was written:” Live every day as if it’s your last. Enjoy the moment. Forget the past. It even rhymes. I notice that. For most of us it is probably easy to live every day as if it’s our last. Or is it? May be it is also easy for most of us to enjoy the moment. Or may be it takes some skill to do that.

But what about forgetting the PAST? That is not easy for any of us!

For some of us it is really difficult to remember things, Bible verses for example and we are complaining to other people about it until somebody says, ” Remembering is no problem, but forgetting is the problem.” Mainly older people are saying that.

For some reason or another we cannot forget the past, especially all the things we have done wrong. There is a voice inside us called our conscience. And this voice is stronger than all the trumpets of this voice. That voice never has a rest, day and night it is calling guilty, guilty, guilty… even though there is no eartly judge around. We must repent. We must find a way to make good.

There is a way. The Bible says in First John 1:9 ” If we confess or sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins, and purify us from all unrighteousnes.” First John 1:7