The thing you keep carrying that God already threw away
Dear friend.
Can I ask you something personal?
Before your feet touched the floor this morning, was something already waiting for you? A memory. A mistake. That thing you said, or did, or failed to do. It might be years old. It might be from last night. But there it is - sitting on your chest before the day has even begun.
If you know that feeling, you are not alone. And I think today’s reading is for you.
I have been sitting with Micah 7:19 this week. It is not one of those verses people cross-stitch onto cushions. But it stopped me cold. “You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean.”
Notice what God doesn’t do. He doesn’t reluctantly hand out a pardon and tell you to move along. He tramples. He hurls. He throws them into the deepest place imaginable - where, in the ancient world, nothing ever came back from.
That is not a grudging God. That is a joyful, decisive, total act of grace.
And Paul writes in Romans 6 that we have died to sin. Past tense. Finished. The battle you wake up to fight every morning? God won it before you opened your eyes.
So here is the honest question worth sitting with today: if the battle is already won, why are we still dragging ourselves back into it?
This is Day 1 of a new series on living from that freedom - not just believing it, but actually starting the day from grace.
Even if you only take one thing from today, try saying this out loud before the noise begins:
“God has thrown my sins into the sea. I start today from grace.”
That’s not a programme. It’s not a resolution. It’s just a small act of faith - choosing to receive what God has already done.
The full five-minute video is here if you’d like to watch it. But either way, I’m glad you’re here.
See you tomorrow.
Rob
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