“My eye, my eye,” the foreman screamed incessantly as he frantically ran through the steel mill toward the nurse on duty. While grinding a rather large piece of metal, a small chip flew up into his eye. “What’s wrong,” the nurse asked as she observed the hysterical Cyclops of a man who stammered into her office. “A piece of metal flew into my eye!” “It doesn’t belong in my eye!” “Get it out,” he shouted. “Or else I’m gonna own this company tomorrow!” After carefully examining the man’s eye, the nurse said, “Sir whatever it was that was in your eye is gone. I have searched your eye thoroughly and there is no trace of it in there.” “ITS IN THERE; I CAN FEEL IT,” the man shouted. The nurse jumped at the close of the man’s angry remark, not in fear but enlightenment instead. “I know what it is,” she said. “Sir, the piece of metal is no longer in your eye. The problem is your eye has a MEMORY…”
I heard this story several years ago in a perfect parallel to a great point, and just as the power of its positive and poignant message has remained in my head all these years, negative MEMORIES if allowed to, can carry the same persistent poignance. If you are honest, you can look back on your journey through life and upon your walk with Christ, and see that you’ve certainly made mistakes, mishaps, and done some down right maniac-minded things. While you can laugh about and some of those things, you can never completely forget them. Now, you know that the moment you confessed your sins, you were forgiven and they were cast away; however, the reason you can't forget is because your conscious still has a memory.
Perhaps your current problems, situations, strongholds, circumstances, etc. are not really problems, situations, strongholds, or circumstances at all; perhaps they are simply memories of what once was. Nagging memories from a sin nature that, like their father, are AS a roaring lions seeking to devour and destroy your present with mere ghosts from your past. BUT, your Father in heaven says that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away and behold ALL things are MADE NEW.
You are a PRODUCT of your past, but you become a PRISONER of it when you allow shadows to steal your peace. Today, if you wish to remain a PRODUCT and not a PRISONER, do some introspective inventory, put the spot light on your shadows, and take the advice of Paul in 2 Corinthians 10:5…cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; a memory is a thought, a shadow, a ghost.
Recognize them, Remove them through prayer, Receive Christ’s power, His peace, Revive, Refresh, Restore, Replenish, and Re-Up in is presence and in His word, and lets keep it moving so that our Faith can continue to outlive our failures…BLESSINGS!!!!!
I heard this story several years ago in a perfect parallel to a great point, and just as the power of its positive and poignant message has remained in my head all these years, negative MEMORIES if allowed to, can carry the same persistent poignance. If you are honest, you can look back on your journey through life and upon your walk with Christ, and see that you’ve certainly made mistakes, mishaps, and done some down right maniac-minded things. While you can laugh about and some of those things, you can never completely forget them. Now, you know that the moment you confessed your sins, you were forgiven and they were cast away; however, the reason you can't forget is because your conscious still has a memory.
Perhaps your current problems, situations, strongholds, circumstances, etc. are not really problems, situations, strongholds, or circumstances at all; perhaps they are simply memories of what once was. Nagging memories from a sin nature that, like their father, are AS a roaring lions seeking to devour and destroy your present with mere ghosts from your past. BUT, your Father in heaven says that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away and behold ALL things are MADE NEW.
You are a PRODUCT of your past, but you become a PRISONER of it when you allow shadows to steal your peace. Today, if you wish to remain a PRODUCT and not a PRISONER, do some introspective inventory, put the spot light on your shadows, and take the advice of Paul in 2 Corinthians 10:5…cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; a memory is a thought, a shadow, a ghost.
Recognize them, Remove them through prayer, Receive Christ’s power, His peace, Revive, Refresh, Restore, Replenish, and Re-Up in is presence and in His word, and lets keep it moving so that our Faith can continue to outlive our failures…BLESSINGS!!!!!
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