Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
When you enter into Covenant with Me in Jesus, you and I can rewrite your past, raise up your present, and step into a bright future and an unfailing hope as your anchor behind the veil!
So that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie [“I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”], we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:18-20.
You have the JOY of forgetting what lies behind and pressing forward to the goal of your high calling in Christ. The sins are gone and the celebration is on (and that is the story of the Prodigal Son).
With joy and great gladness, you can come to Me without the encumbrance of the sin that so viciously clings to take you down to the depths of guilt, regret, and shame, unable to face tomorrow or even today.
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2.
But I am the God of your great gladness and exceeding joy and I send out My light and truth to lead you to My holy mountain, to the tabernacle of praise where new hope is raised.
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell. Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God of my greatest gladness (simchah (שִׂמְחָה): joy, gladness, mirth, rejoicing) and exceeding joy (gyl (גִּיל): to rejoice, be glad, exult). I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God. Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 43:3-5.
Gil denotes a vigorous, overflowing gladness that breaks into audible or visible celebration. It is never casual; it is the kind of delight that insists on expression—dancing, shouting, song, or festal procession. And that is what the forgiveness of all that is past does for your weary soul. Sin is a heavy burden and a destructive taskmaster.
I am, I was, and I always will be the One who has freed you from your sins in Christ and released you from the darkness of the past. Those days are over, finished and gone, its time to step up to where you are seated with Christ at My right hand and sing a new song, a song of joyful praise for the blessing of all your days. Then you can sing to Me and with Me, “My life became a joy, it’s true, since the day that I met You, all the years of fears and tears are gone since I met You!”
I have taken care of all your burden of sin, it was too heavy for you to carry, the world cannot even carry it, all creation is groaning under the weight of it.
The things that you carry are burdensome, a load for the weary. They stooped over, they have bowed down together; they could not rescue the burden, but have themselves gone into captivity. Isaiah 46:1-2.
But Jesus invites you who are weary and burdened to come to Him, for He has taken unto Himself all your sins and offenses and borne their punishment and paid your judgment so that you can be free with the burden destroyed by the anointing.
So it will be in that day, that his burden [the destroyer’s burden oppressing you] will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of the anointing. Isaiah 10:27.
And what is that anointing? The same anointing upon the head of your High Priest Jesus, who is the head of His body, the church. The anointing with the oil of joy. Psalm 45:7; Hebrews 1:9. And that is they way Jesus went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, by the anointing and power. My joy is your strength and it is an anointing. I give you beauty for your ashes (remember the burnt offering reduced your sins upon the lamb to ashes, that were taken outside the camp and poured out in a clean place, gone from sight and blown away by the wind, not a trace of guilt and shame remained).
Sin is a devasting and terrible force. Do not play with it or even touch it, it is corrupt, it is foul, and it is dark. Let My Light and truth lead you out of it in the upward ascent to My holy mountain where I make you joyful in My house of prayer.
“Even those I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.” Isaiah 56:7.
I have taken away that burden from all those that want to cast their cares on Me.
You who have been borne by Me from birth and have been carried from the womb; even to your old age I will be the same, and even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; and I will bear you and I will deliver you. Isaiah 46:3-4.
It is over, I have rescued you from the realm of darkness and translated you into My own wonderful light by putting you in the Kingdom of My Beloved Son, the Light of the world, in whom you have redemption by His blood, the forgiveness of your sins.
Do you know what I have given you in Christ? Though you sins were red as crimson, I have made them white as snow, you are cleansed, purified and sanctified in the blood of Jesus as if sin had never been for I put it all on Him. And He bore the burden and accepted the yoke in your place as the pure sacrifice that lifted the burden off of the whole world. I so loved the world that I gave you My only begotten Son that all who believe in Him shall never perish but have eternal life. You who are in Him have eternal life and that life is the light of all.
Rejoice in and take delight with tears of joy and awe that you have forgiveness of past, present, and future sins in the One Jesus Christ who gave His life as a ransom for all. One day all will be past and a new eternal day will dawn on Mt. Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem and the glorious church of the firstborn where you are made perfect in Christ.
With each new day, I give you new light. Keep your eyes on the light and off the darkness. For the path of those who are righteous with My own righteousness in Christ gets brighter and brighter until perfect day, but it is not so for the fools and the wicked who love darkness rather than light, but they know not over that which they stumble. Do not delay, come to Me now while it is still the age of grace, while the light to lead you on to My holy mountain is still among you.
When the night comes on no man can work. Walk forward while you have the Light.
We have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. 2 Peter 1:19-21.
I love you. Today is the day that I have made for you, rejoice and be glad in it! Forget what lies behind, it is all under the blood, like the first Passover, for I am doing something new—with you! Don’t you perceive it? It is time to take off the limits and take the promised land.