Forget!

Forget!

“Listen . . . consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people also, and your father’s house, so the King will greatly desire [delight in] your beauty; because He is your Lord . . . .” Ps. 45:10-11. This is the Bridegroom’s word to His bride. It is a word addressed to those few who accept the heavenly calling to be Jesus Christ’s disciples by fulfilling the conditions—forsaking themselves and all their possessions.

“For you will forget the shame of your youth . . . .” Isa. 54:4.

“Forgetting those things which are behind . . . .” Phil. 3:13.

“You will forget your misery . . . .” Job 11:16. Yes, forget your misery and your striving, your pain and your sufferings and your defeats, and everything that is behind you, reaching out for the things that lie ahead, living in hope, faith, and love today, in the present, and each day as long as you live! Frolic in the living hope that it shall succeed for you to be transformed! Yes, frolic in hope like a fish in water!!! Obey the word, “Rejoice in hope!” It is your Lord’s command to you! Forget everything you feel, and even more, forget all of Satan’s demonic accusations! Resist him, steadfast in the faith . . . .” 1 Pet. 5:9. This is also one of the glorious, especially effective commands of the King of Kings!!!

“Love keeps no accounts of evil [that others have done to you] . . . .” 1 Cor. 13:5. This means that love does not remember it; on the contrary, it forgets it. You must also forget everything—all that was awkward and annoying, because there is no help to be had from thinking about it. On the contrary!

You must also forget all the things that have been related to you, for it is almost never completely true, and sometimes it is the very opposite of the truth! And it is best that we even “forget” to tell others, for it is either already bad when you are relating it, or, quite possibly, it becomes bad on its journey onwards.

Also forget all the good things you have done in order to exclude the possibility of being ever so slightly puffed up by it!

Be so zealous in the ministry that you forget yourself! Indeed, that is preferable!