Remembering

For all the obstacles that have come with this move, (and there have been more than I've been writing about simply because I didn't want to complain constantly) I know one thing:

I have dealt with my past sins and am finished with the reaping that comes as a result.

What a freedom in knowing that. My friend-and perhaps yours too-Julie wrote a post today entitled Standing Firm/Staying Put. It has reminded me to remember.

You know, I serve a God who calls me to remember. Remember what He did to the Egyptians who tried to recapture the Israelites after letting them go (Ex 15:21), remember how He has brought me through trial after trial, remember His faithfulness in ALL things. Even the book of Deuteronomy is a call to the Israelites to remember God's law.

I remember wanting to move away from my town just as soon as I could. In fact, my plans in high school included going off to college and moving to a big(ger) town so that no one knew me and I didn't know them. I could start over. No raised eyebrows if I walked into the room with whispers of "that's coach, you remember her. She...(you fill in the blanks)"

However, God had other plans. Including me living in house in the back of the same neighborhood where I lived in high school. (Pretty far move, huh?!) And over the course of me living there, He brought people into my path that I'd just as soon never see again.

But it was through those people that God dealt with me, and caused me to forever be changed. To be set free from fear and worry. And the chains that I was wearing by choice.

Just before our house was put up for sale, God sent a word to me telling me that the time of havesting from my rebellion was complete. If you could picture a field, that He had gone through that field and cleaned it out of all the bad seed I had planted there. It is done. It is finished. I have a field that has good seed planted there. Now is the time for harvesting that good seed.

Yes, God has moved us on from that house. I will remember what else He has moved me from. And how, in HIS timing, it all came to be.