Our world lives in fear. Our world does not focus on all the good things that happen; they focus on all the challenges. If we are not careful, we can fall into the trap of believing all the bad things we hear. It is all too easy to let life define us rather than allowing our relationship with God to define us. When we are baptized, our sins are forgiven. The bible says that He erases the record, but we still keep a record in our own memories. The only thing that has a record to that record is our flesh. We listen too much to what our flesh says and not enough to what God says about us. Did the truth not free us? The fact is that the truth has limitations. Unfortunately, those limitations start with our own minds. When we go down in the water, He forgives all the sins we have committed. However, He does not forgive those sins committed against us. God can forgive our sins, but he cannot forgive others for us. We have to do that on our own. The only way to forgive is not to say “Jesus, I give it to you” The only way to do it is for us to ask Jesus to erase their sin and cast it into the sea of forgetfulness. Until we do that, we give our flesh permission to drag up our past, and our past will keep us in constant turmoil and angst. The way out of this cycle is to truly forgive those that have wronged us and allow the truth to set us free.