Nobody Remembers

I’d like to say that I’m a guy that doesn’t embarrass easily. I can let things slide and not really affect me. But I mean, who hasn’t been in situations where they were really embarrassed? I can testify to many awkward and red-faced moments. Sometimes, I find myself thinking back on the moments and getting even more embarrassed and ashamed.

But I’ve discovered something that has (almost) set me free. “Nobody remembers but you.” Life changing, I know. But the one time you DJ’d for your cousins wedding and didn’t know how to control the iPod for the first dance and everyone stood there staring? No one remembers—not even the bride herself. Or the time you were a little sick at the dinner table at your friends house and tried to hide it by taking a drink but your stomach had different plans? Nobody remembers that, either.

Both of those are my real life stories that I’ve asked people about and they don’t remember them happening. Yet, I’ve revisited them over and over in my mind and let them affect me. How daft!

But how true is it with sin? We realize our stupidity, go to God in repentance but then still focus on the one thing that He said He would “remember them no more” (Heb. 8:12)! It hampers our relationship with Him and we don’t experience true freedom. We have put up a wall that God promised to tear down.

What is keeping you from your full potential? Give it to God and then move on to greater things.

Stephen