"No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead..."
Okay, in the spirit of full transparency, I have become
more forgetful. Call it age, call it too much on my plate, or just call it too
much data/information coming at me, but whatever it is, I'm more inclined to be
forgetful today than in the past. I've
always been a note taker and today I am more so than ever. What is cool about today is that with so many
different pieces of technology that can help us store, organize and recover
what we have gathered. There is
Evernote, which I love. Our phones give
us apps like Catcha and built in applications for note taking both written and
spoken. There is also Dropbox, Google Drive and Box for storage. I guess the problem could someday be that we
become forgetful about what is stored where, but I suspect there will be a
solution for that as well. What is for
certain is that with all of the technology solutions that there shouldn't be
any excuse for forgetfulness. Within the coming years, those who are forgetful
will become more obvious for being unorganized, lazy, or symptomatic of a
greater problem. Will this make us more efficient and productive within our
companies, we will see!
So, there is one area of our lives that we are to be
forgetful and that is our forgiveness of others. Nope, we are not to write down
all of the transgressions that others have committed against us and keep them
for after we forgive. Imagine if God was
to do that with us? If He managed our
sins like a credit score, we’d all be in big trouble. But, that is not God’s way. His way is to
model for us the ultimate in forgetfulness.
Once we ask for forgiveness, He doesn’t keep track, He just forgives and
forgets, like we should. Being truly
forgiving and forgetful towards others is one of the most powerful examples of
Christ that we can take to work with us today. Imagine if our reputations were
to be the person that everyone could count on to be truly forgiving and to
never dredge up the past?
Reference: Philippians 3:13 (New Living Translation)
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