The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

2 Peter 1:9 CSB

Not sure how we can be both blind and shortsighted?!?

And forgetful.

This person is not in good shape!

I don't know about you, but I find at times it's a well worn path in my heart that takes me back to my past sins and revisit the guilt, wallow in it, get stuck in it.

Again.

And Peter says when i do that I'm blind. 

I've gone dark to God's grace. 

I've lost sight of Jesus sacrifice.

I've gone back to this shortsighted view of me.

I forget, and punish myself again, for things that God has forgiven.

I forget that Jesus work on the cross was enough.

And his anti-lie for all this?

V5-7

Faith

+goodness

+knowledge

+self-control

+endurance

+godliness

+friendship love

+agape love

Peter's pizza ingredients in increasing measure will not let us forget who we are in Jesus, the love that came down and redeemed us.

And that we don't have to go back.

We're free of that.

Free from the short sightedness of my own thinking and the blindness that can threaten to take over my heart.

Free.

Live in that this week.

#freefromthepast