On Your Permanent Record

My grade school teachers had a threat that never failed to frighten me. Whenever I was about to do something that they didn’t want me to do, they said it would end up on my “permanent record.” If I was late for school, it went on my permanent record. If I misbehaved on the playground, you guessed it?on my permanent record. I sometimes wonder if it’s still there!

Seriously though, we all have a permanent record. Not even God can change our past. What has happened has happened and we can’t change it.

The only thing that can get us beyond those mistakes is forgiveness. And the only source of true forgiveness is God. The Bible promises, “If we confess our sins, [God] is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins.”

Forgiveness doesn’t change what happened, but it fixes it going forward!

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