Folding Life's Tent

The story never told lives in the deep dark caverns of our souls. We hide what lies beneath with big smiling faces. We know. We know a past, we have a past, and we wish it would pass! We throw away one face, just to find another beneath, stored and it's smiling too. The thought rips and scorns. But is the thought mine? or, did it come from another? Those secrets from the past haunt, and they haunt me today. Will it never go away? Unless, unless my memory fades away?

Perhaps some memory loss is good. It fades and hides that which cannot be understood. Somethings lost should not be found. Leave it on the ground! “O God, hear my plea! Hide me in Christ’s blood! Keep me free from which I’m free!” And my heart shudders.  I press my mind and think on glories told, that which never grows old. Then the Word reminds me, Christ is sufficient and He’s holding me! It reminds me everyday: the Word is real, active, and powerful. Our condemnation is a thing of the past! Yes! Christ killed the curse and though a faint heart beat does linger, yet soon it will be gone and all this evil with that lingers.

Right now I have to ask, “When will life’s tent be folded? When will time roll backup like a scroll? When?” Though I ask, the answers are not mine to know. But, I know my redeemer lives. I know He sees what I've done, what I do, and what I will do. He holds all eternity. There is no secret He does not know. He’s setup time and we’re all in the show. Our parts are but short; they are just vapors then gone.

Though we think and try with might, it is not enough to understand God’s grace and liberty. They are but gifts, given from above. Why God loves a twisted one like me never makes sense. But, our God is greater! He is greater than the messes I've made. He is greater than what hidden in the caverns of our soul. He is greater than time or eternity, yet in Christ He forgets our sin. He casts it away and it’s remembered no more!

^“I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin. So now anyone who is in Christ Jesus is not judged guilty.”  Romans 7:25—8:1 ERV


"For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
    so great is his love for those who fear him;
¹² as far as the east is from the west,
    so far has he removed our transgressions from us."
Psalms 103:11-12 NIV