Hope

[This is my Faith Post for June 2025.] 
[Edited from my Ascension Day Sermon, May 29, 2025]

Past, present, and future, together all play a role in defining our lives and who we are and what we will be. God’s Word speaks clearly to all three and what God is doing for us in our lives.  When it comes to our past, we might look at this with guilt and shame.  We have memories of poor choices and sins of our own making.  We might also bear sorrow and loss when we think of our past. Hopefully we also have a few joyful memories to treasure in our past as well.  But when God looks at our past, He does so with forgiveness and mercy.  This is the benefit of Baptism and being an adopted child of God.  Our past sins are forgiven and we enter each new day of the present with a clean slate, washed by the blood of the Lamb.