I would soon be traveling to new places of freedom and
fullness I’d never seen before.
It was done. I was free.The enemy’s bad-girl accusations against us come with a
statute of limitations. He can rant and threaten and how-dare-
you all he wants, but here’s why you can plug your ears,
ignore his accusations, and sing God’s praise while you walk
away with real pardon in your heart.
First, God doesn’t live in the past. Because God—your God
—exists outside of time. To Him, the past that so haunts and
hamstrings you, the past that so ruffles and frustrates you, is
not in the past at all. In prayer, you are alone with a God who
sees you only as you are and have always been since that
beautiful moment when you placed faith in Him—holy,
righteous, and blameless; past, present, and future. He forgives
your guilt, removes your shame, and declares His work an
established, all-the-time fact. Prayer does a complete end run
around Satan’s pitiful accusations, ushering us into an eternal
realm with God where “the past” doesn’t even compute.