devotion column:Erasmus Makarimayi THERE is so much life that lies ahead than what the past offered for those who are courageous. They say the sky is the limit, but for those born of the Spirit of God, there’s no limit. Humanity enjoys memorials but spirituality hungers for eternity future. Believers don’t think outside the box, but rather think without the box. Our realm where we operate from has no earthly barriers. Philippians 3:20 (New King James) is instructive, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,” We operate from our base. Philippians 3:21 (New Living Translation) brings it home, “Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.” We are concerned with divine truth and we discipline our faculties to be totally immersed in eternal spiritual reality from where we derive our power and authority. As ambassadors here on earth, our mission is from our country, heaven. Jesus in His High Priestly prayer on earth assures us in John 17:16, “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” Our mission here is to be light and salt. Jesus Christ redeemed us from death of this world to eternal life which we have to embrace and get more insight into. We don't want to waste precious time digging into the past. It is because of sin consciousness that babes in the faith keep playing the CDs and DVDs of past failures and regrets. Back in the Old Testament, God had already told us that our sins would not catch up with us once purged. Psalm 103:12 records, “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.” Do you know that if you go to the East there is still East of that East? It’s not possible for East or West to converge. Furthermore, God doesn’t remember those sins nor bring them into account. He promised in Hebrews 8:12, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” Please don’t waste your time confessing past and forgiven sins. Meditate on your righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Apostle Paul guides us in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” Keep repeating; I’m the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus until it registers in your inner being which ultimately influences your attitude and conduct in the outer world. Never tire to speak it. You’re the redeemed of the Lord. Psalm 107:2 reads, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;” Grab and grasp the truth. Apostle Paul had enough Biblical space to narrate in detail all his past evil deeds but he didn’t. He chose to give us beneficial food. In writing a personal pastoral letter to his son in the faith he mentions in 1 Timothy 1:13, “Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obta
