The human mind is a powerful thing. It hangs on to things. It remembers things. And often, at least in my experience, it remembers the things that I have no desire to remember. It remembers the pain. It remembers the band times. It remembers things that I do neither want to nor choose to remember.
What do you think it was like for Peter to live forever with the name, title, and memory of “the one who denied Jesus?” What do you think it was like for Matthew to be known as “the tax collector?” What do you think it was like for them to be constantly reminded and to remember their moments of epic failure regularly?
I have moments like that, too, where I remember my moments of sin and failures against God and toward other people. Moments I can’t help. Moments that are triggered in me so that I remember my sin again. Perhaps you’ve lived through that, too.
This weekend, as we keep reading through Luke, we want to deal with those scars and the memory of our past sins. We’ll let the waves of mercy and the power of Jesus’ look do it’s work.
See you Sunday!
Pastor Nate
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