Halo multiplayer matches contain some of my greatest gaming triumphs as well as many of my most embarrassing gaming failures. Sure, I have captured my fair share of flags and controlled plenty of hills over the years, but I’ve also fallen completely off of the map and tasted my own rocket’s splash damage more times than I care to admit. But the beginning of a new match starts me off with a clean slate, and if I want to succeed in this new opportunity I have to leave all of my previous mistakes in the past and move forward. While it’s important to learn from those errors so I don’t replicate them in the future, continuing to dwell on what’s behind me prevents me from being fully present for the task in front of me. 

We’ve all made sinful mistakes in our past that we wish we could undo, but no matter how much we regret them we can’t go back and change what we see when we look in our rear view mirror. But Jesus didn’t die for our sins so we could let them continue to live rent free in a mind and body that He paid the ultimate price to redeem. The Lord has offered a fresh start to every soul who will receive it, and in the eyes of the Father every sin that we have repented from has already been forgotten. Let’s purge them from our memories once and for all… today is a new round, the score is 0-0, and that flag isn’t going to capture itself.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:8-12

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