Monday, May 10, 2021

Childhood mistakes?


 My sister asked me this question.  
Would you change anything about your childhood if you could go back?  This is my reply in a a story.

 I don't think there is anything about my childhood I would want to change. All of us make dumb mistakes in our childhood that we are ashamed of. But those mistakes sometimes mold us into who we become. It's really none of my business because my past is not my own. God is the author of my autobiography, not me. Who am I to change it? If I messed with my past I bet there would be a problem in the space time continuum and I am not Michael J. Fox in the least. I think messing with the past God gave me is a crime. Referring to what I said earlier about having mistakes in our past mold us, mixing that with fantasy, would there be a story about Scrooge if he had gone back and fixed the past? Would Anakin Skywalker have turned out like George Lucas wrote him if he had gone back and fixed his past?  Which all human pasts are messy by nature, dirty, bloody and sinful pasts, not unlike Anakin. God loves us so much that he gave us an opportunity to leave all our dirty pasts at the foot of the cross on which he sent his Son to die on to be the propitiation for our dirty, bloody, sinful pasts and give us new life free from bondage to our bloody, sinful pasts. He washes those pasts away with his blood (which kind of sounds ironic) and clothes us in white robes of righteousness. So he who believes in Him can live forever in his kingdom and share in the glorious inheritance in His presence. "For God so loved the world, that he gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16 "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 



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