Now this is a challenging one!
We learn here that when God forgives us he actually erases that past sin. Not just taking it out of the question, but being the master of time, can actually alter the past and make it so that it never happened.
Yet, I’ve always thought that the past was a great teacher. My past is what makes me who I am, including the sins and the not-so-great parts.
The analogy in the story is a cloth that has been dyed red. It would be very difficult to turn the cloth back into white cloth, unless you were able to go back in time and prevent it from getting dyed in the first place. This is what is proposed that God does for us.
This would be the circumstances necessary to have no pain, no regret, no tears, etc. If we could still remember the pain and sin of the past, then in our blissful state we could still have pain.
I struggle with this one. It seems like it takes away a bit of my identity.
The Mission: Soak in the undying. Receive from heaven jour changed, innocent, pure, and beloved past, a past as beautiful and as white as snow.
Mark K.