MEMORIES

When memories come to your mind how to react. What feelings surfaced in his memory? Many years ago there was another person who wrote another song where he talked about the power they have memories on our minds and our lives. Does recall something similar in the Bible? Well, perhaps a bit difficult to answer this question quickly, but I'm going to help.

Before continuing with this thought, I invite you to see and hear this song

"Rest in my" one letter with a deep content.



His name was David and the verse of his song is in Psalm 51: 3b.

"... my sin is not erased from my mind." (God Speaks Today)

"and my sin is always before me." (KJV 1995)

I. Our memories are powerful

Who has not ever spent a night without sleep because your mind can not fail to recall an event that we have lived? This is one of those few situations where we can be assured that every human being on this planet at some point the live. When we have experiences like these, we are living moments of great frustration because they want to be able to sleep and we fail. There have passed the hours of the night and, after spending 5 or 6 hours we finally overcomes fatigue and barely managed to break a couple of hours. Suddenly, sounds the alarm clock announcing that the time has come to begin a new day of work. That day is disastrous. Just as we manage and coordinate mid-morning our body screams for a bed to sleep where we can.

II. What's with Our Memories?

When we are confronted with a question like this we can see more clearly the options we have available at the moment of truth. These options are summarized in three. They are:

A. Become your prisoner / a.

B. We can make ornaments and a cult of our memories.

C. We can liberate our memories.

A. This is probably the most used by us as. This, we can lead to moments where we do not know what to do. They are experiences where they hide our reality, even God himself. That is, if there is sin involved, we decided not to confess. David is, again, who lets us express what happens to us when operated in this way. Let's see.

"While street, aged my bones in my moan all day because of day and night was heavy on my hand ...." (Psalm 32: 3-4)

It is these experiences, of being a prisoner of our thoughts, that lead some people to attempt suicide, divorce, adultery, drug use, depression, etc.. And so on. And so on.

We can see how this works in the lives of two of the disciples of Master. The first is that we look at Pedro. Let's see what the Scriptures say.

"Then he started to swear and perjurar, saying," Do not know the man!

At that very moment and sang a rooster, Peter remembered that Jesus had told him: 'Before the rooster singing, deny me three times.' And Peter went out of there, and wept bitterly. "(Matthew 26: 74 -- 75)

Now let's see if Judas:

"Judas, who had betrayed Jesus, seeing that he had been convicted, had remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders ... then Judas threw the coins into the temple, and went and hanged. " (St. Matthew 27: 3, 5)

These two people had betrayed Jesus for different reasons. Peter, he did because he was not ready to die for the sake of the Master, will daunt. Judas, because he did not accept the life of Christ as the way he taught. One of them went and committed suicide, the other spent the worst weekend in a lifetime. It's big and powerful are the memories. They operate like a shadow that we pursue you wherever you go.

B. But becoming a prisoner / as our memories are not the only thing that can happen to us. There is a second option which may sometimes become worse than the first. This happens when we begin to adorn our thoughts trying to find explanations to why we act the way they did and, in our mind that this an unbridled quest for information is starting to speculate and invent things that never were present at the time of the event. An example of this situation so we can find a Judas. The word says that this man had remorse.

Remorse

Feelings of regret or concern about something bad has happened and where one feels responsible, or for performing an action that feels bad, unjust, harmful to someone.

If we were to make a comparison between the two people who have been useful as examples, we could say that Peter is the case A and B. represents Judas

In addition, we should ask ourselves, what about us as to what we represent?

C. The third option we have available to deal with our memories is that the Apostle Paul mentions us in Philippians 3:13 b.

"... what do I do is forget what is left behind and strive to achieve what is in front to reach the finish ..." (God Speaks Today)

"But one thing I do: forgetting what is left behind and extending to what is ahead continuing toward the goal ..." (BDLA)

Forget

Fail to have affection for someone or something, or fail to devote the attention they gave him before.

This definition allows us to see clearly that human beings have the ability to select what thoughts are going to take command of our mind. Obviously, this is a process and we can take a few days and sometimes weeks or months. But is our attitude towards the event during that time-out which will help us to achieve the goal.

Probably you've ever had the chance to see the movie Ben Hur and its famous scene of the jurisdiction of the carriages in the Roman Colosseum. I bring this to mind because this is the image that the apostle has in his mind when he wrote these verses to the church in Philippi.

In a gladiator ever you happen to look back when the carriage pulled by some powerful horses travelers will quickly toward the goal. Her feet are asserted in an area of only about 4 square feet, their hands are only supported by flanges, your body moves around on wheels and axles made rustic iron and wood. But, there goes the gladiator, you can not afford to look back because your life depends on looking straight ahead toward the goal .... The mistake earlier in the curve can not bring you to look back because it loses the race, has to continue looking ahead so that when I get to the next curve does not again commit the same mistake. The can not lose sight of the goal, his life is at stake.

Conclusion

Siblings us / as in this' movie of life "we are not spectators who are seated Roar / as in the stands. Both you and I are represented in that gladiator that moves swiftly on this chariot. The memories of those who have spoken today, are represented by those who commit errors throughout the race.

Begin to look back will cost us the triumphant not reach the goal.

What do you think with your memories: going to be prisoner to them as David; gonna adorned incessantly looking for answers where there are none, like Judas, or finally, like the gladiator who will leave behind the things of the past in order to extenderte the things of this and continue towards the goal, as Paul? Uff, I almost forgot, and what memories will come to your mind when you are back to listen to (read) the song "Memories"?

Once again the Apostle encourages us through the following words:

"... Let us put aside everything to us the way and the sin that entangled us, and let us run with strong career ahead." (Hebrews 12: 1b)