How To Alter
Your Past*
We were
sitting in his study. He was holding a scarlet cord.
“I dyed
it myself,” said the teacher. “I left it in the solution for several days to
make sure the dye soaked into every fiber. Do you think it is possible to undye the cord, to make it white again?”
“I
doubt it.”
“It is
written: ‘Thought your sins are as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.’ It
would be like undyeing the cord.”
“Which
would be impossible,” I said.
“But it’s
even more impossible than that. How do you make sins go from scarlet to white?
Sins are sins because they are already committed. They’re done. They’re part of
the past, and the past is finished.”
“Then
the only way to alter a sin would b to change the past.”
“Yes,
and yet Scriptures are filled with the promise that GOD will one day wipe away sin and wash away our
guilt. You can’t wipe away sin or cleanse guilt without changing the past.”
“But it’s
impossible to change the past.”
“The
first recorded miracle of Messiah was the changing of water into wine. But wine
is only wine if it is aged. But the wine in the miracle had no past to be aged.
It had to, in a sense, be given a new past. If GOD can give a past where there was no past, the He can
remove a past where there was one.”
“So
salvation is the undyeing of the scarlet cord,” I said.
“Exactly.
GOD doesn’t just forgive
the scarlet cord or pretend that it isn’t scarlet. He changes its past and, by
that, changes its reality. He undyes it.”
“He can
do that?” I asked.
“GOD brought time into existence.
GOD can bring it out of
existence.”
“So it’s
not simply that everything is the same and we’re forgiven in spite of it. It’s
as if we never sinned in the first place.”
“And
even more amazing than that. It’s not just as
if we never sinned but, in His redemption, it has become that we’ve never
sinned. In salvation, the impossible becomes reality, the guilty become
innocent, the tainted become pure, the rejected become those who were always
beloved children, and our sins, which were as scarlet, became…as white as snow.”
The Mission: Soak in the undyeing.
Receive from heaven your changed, innocent, pure, and beloved past, a past as
beautiful and as white as snow.
Isaiah 1:8; Luke
7:37-47; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 John 1:8-9
As Beloved Children
*The Book of
Mysteries, Day 17; Jonathan Cahn; Front Line, Charisma Media/Charisma House
Book Group; Copyright 2016
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