Blended Life

I have a quick thought this morning that I’m sure requires more time and energy than I have time to spend thinking it through.

We are each a life that is blended from the sources of our past….

There. Said. It! None of us are “pure” this or that. We are the sum total of our past, and will produce a continual blended life forward.

The key is that we really have no clue about our past. Few of us know any family history past 2 or 3 generations immediately leading up to who we are right now. That being said, we can claim the stories we are told to identify what we think, and even DNA testing can only tell us so much, but for the most part we are ignorant of exactly who we are.

God commanded Noah and his family to replenish and populate the earth (Genesis 9:1), and almost as the time since then, that’s what humans have been doing. We may all be able to trackback to this point, but where did Noah come from? That’s another muddied past that backtracks to Adam and Eve.

So. Our ultimate tie-in goes back thousands of years to the first man and first woman.

The Stories of Our Past

Like presidential candidates who get “outed” for claiming they are something that DNA tells them “no way”, many of us have family stories that tell an interesting tale of history. My bride’s family has stories back to Daniel Boone, but there is no proof. Only stories. My own life claimed Native American Indian heritage. Choctaw on one side, Cherokee on the other, and DNA says, “Nope!” In fact, there’s nothing to indicate this former heritage I once proudly claimed, other than the stories from my past.

We all have stories! Some are embarrassing, others confrontational, and others we brag to others about. But the key to this is that I’m not what my past says. I do not “owe” for what they did hundreds and thousands of years ago. My story begins with ME!

Here’s My Thought Today

Just as we have stories, through Christ we are blessed to claim freedom from our past. Christ has forgiven us for our sins and wiped our past from the annals of spiritual time.

What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
What can make me whole within? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
Oh, Precious is the flow that makes me white as snow!
No other fount I know! Nothing but the blood of Jesus!

A man may remember! The courts keep good records! Even DNA tells our history! But Not My Lord!

The psalmist declares there is freedom from our past!

“The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

As a father shows compassion to his children,
so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.
For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.
As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
But the steadfast love of the LORD
is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children,
to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.”  
Psalms 103:8-18 (ESV)

Here’s the Key!

You can stay at the “forgetfulness of God”. Every morning his blessings are new! (Lamentations 3:23) He knows who we are, and remembers that we are here but just a short time, but his love is forever!

Let everyone else remember what they choose, but keep your focus on remembering you are a child of the only one who chooses to forget!

Perhaps the major key is this: 

You are responsible to remember His Blessings!
They refresh and invigorate you every moment!
Perhaps you need a daily memory verse.
Don’t just have one for today, 
But add a new one every day.

Every promise in the book is mine. Every chapter, verse, and line. I’m trusting in his love divine! Every promise in the books is mine.