There's More!

Several years ago (In my other life) I was sitting in front of an infamous “pulpit” committee.  As they finished asking me questions as to my ability to pastor and my experience as a pastor, one gentleman stood and said, “Before we finish, I have one last question. Do you have any skeletons in your closet we should know about?” My answer was quick and I thought very witty, “No, none that you should know about.” They didn’t have quite the sense of humor I had.

I love that saying, “Skeletons in your closet”. If they are skeletons, aren’t they dead? And if they are dead, why do we or others keep trying to dig them up? That doesn’t seem to be healthy…digging up dead things.

I entitled this series of blogs, “Dancing With The Skeletons” because I wanted to help others learn to live past their past. If that is going to happen, we can’t keep going back and dancing with the skeletons. We must learn to let the “dead bury the dead”.

I have made so many mistakes and bad decisions in my life that there would not be a closet big enough to hold all the skeletons…if I had any. That’s right! If I had any! Some describe skeletons in your closet as any wrongs you have made in your past. If that were the definition, then yes, I do have many. But I define a “skeleton in your closet” as a past you want to keep buried or hidden. Although I would rather not discuss all my mistakes or wrongs, they are not hidden or buried…they are wiped-out by the blood of Christ. He has exposed them, paid the price, forgave the wrong , covered them by his blood and God remembers my mistakes no more. Look at at Jeremiah 31:34, “…I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

In my next post I will start to share the five skeletons with which we tend to dance and then show how we can bury those skeletons once and for all. But in order to live past your past you must first receive God’s forgiveness and give Him your past.

Be Happy!

Bryan
www.imforgiven.com