Who cares about yesterday?
It’s over and done, and we can’t move backwards. Shouldn’t we all get a fresh start each morning?
Several years back, a grandmother raising a rowdy grandson kept her even keel during a repeated bout of disruptive behavior.
“How do you do it?” a friend asked. “He never learns, and you still love him.”
The grandmother replied, “Every day is brand new. I wipe the slate clean every night.”
That helped that grandmother work with her grandson, but the reality is our past doesn’t disappear just because we want a new beginning.
We must deal with the dregs of our behavior. They will trail us through life, and they will leap out to bite us when we least expect them.
Romans 14:12 says it like this:
“So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.”
Everything we’ve done will come up on that great computer in the sky. God will click on Search, and the system will locate every deed we’ve been involved in, whether for good or ill.
Our only free pass will come in the acceptance of Jesus as our Savior and Lord. God will scan down the deeds we’ve done, he’ll come to our moment of salvation, and everything before that will be chucked into the Trash.
Until then, it’s important to keep a record of how we behave, what we do, how we treat others, and whether we are living by the standards given us in the Bible.
Keeping a record of us helps us know where we stand when it’s time to stand before our King.
Jesus is our standard. He is our example of how to live.
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