A Blip On The Screen

After reading the title of this blog, you might be wondering what in the world is she talking about now. LOL

Keep reading and I'll explain.

A blip is a trace on a display screen, a spot on a radar screen, so says Merriam-Webster dictionary.

The Urban Dictionary says it's something totally insignificant and will be forgotten the moment it's over. I like that.

Most of us, if we're lucky or blessed, whichever you like to call it, get around seventy years in life. That's the average span of a human being's time on earth. And in that lifetime, each thing we do is a blip on the radar, in a sense.

All of your moments are blips on the screen of your whole life.

But let's say you do something really nice for someone, such as help them move to another state if they have no one else to help. Well, at the time, that counts for a lot to that particular person.

And then, say you helped someone else out with some bills they had when they couldn't afford to pay them. That's a really wonderful thing you did and they are happy you helped them.

Say sometime later, someone else needed help with taking care of their children and you stepped in and took up the slack for a while. That parent is so happy and thankful that you were there.

BUT in time, those things are forgotten. They are simply blips on a radar screen in their lifetimes. They may be reminded of them once or twice through memories, but really they are insignificant to them in the grand scheme of things.

I'm reminded of the children of Israel in the Bible and how they wandered in the wilderness for forty years. Over and over, God met their every need, yet over and over the Bible tells us they forgot His goodness toward them. You can read in the book of Joshua how they roamed around for years and what they did to God after He blessed them.

So it seems that even God's goodness was a blip on their radar screen. It was as if all He did for them was forgotten the moment it was over.

I know that in my life, I've forgotten the goodness of God like they did and I've regretted it. We are all human and try as hard as we might, we do tend to forget the good that's done to us and for us.

The bad?

Well, that's a different story. Let me explain that as well.

I talked to a man once who told me that he'd done good all of his life but made a bad mistake in his early sixties. He said the people around him would remember the ONE thing he did wrong and none of the good things he did for anyone in his life.

I thought that was sad. But after having gone through some things, I think he was right. People do tend to remember the bad things we do. It's human nature to focus on what other people do wrong. I'm not a psychologist, but I would be willing to say it's because if I can look at your mistakes, it takes my mind off of mine.

But the scriptures tell us also in Matthew 7:3-5 that we are to first take the beam out of our own eye before we try to get the mote out of our brother's eye. That means that I should take care of the sin in my life before I try to correct the sin in someone else's life.

I began by speaking of a blip on the radar screen. Throughout your life, you and I are going to make a lot of mistakes. Some big, some small, but we are going to make them. But if you take a man's life or a woman's life and look at it as a whole, then those mistakes are just blips in their lives, just like the good they have done. They are minimal, they do NOT define you as a human being unless you are a person who is just downright mean or evil.

But let's say you are a good person who messed up, as we all do. You are not defined by that one thing or the two things you've done in your life. You are defined by your entire life and your ability to rise above those bad choices and move on to live a better, different life.

Now, if you are a child of God, with your sins under the blood of Jesus, then you are free from any condemnation whatsoever as long as you continue to walk with God and keep your life free from sin. That's in Roman 8, one of my favorite books in the Bible. Read it for yourself, I think you'll enjoy it. As long as you ask for forgiveness, turn from your sins and walk with God, He is willing to forget it ever happened. Micah 7:19 tells us that if we repent, He is willing to cast our sins into the depths of the sea.

So with God, our sins really are like blips on the radar screen. There one minute and gone the next if we truly repent. He is faithful to forgive our sins (John 1:19).

Don't let one bad choice define who you are. You are NOT that mistake, you are sooo much more. I am more than my bad choices, my friend's life is more than the bad choice he made, and so is yours.

If you are forgiven and covered by the blood of Christ, then there is no more condemnation for you, no more blips of it on your radar screen. God has forgotten it, and so should others and you as well.

It's time to move on and live a life for God, doing His work, free from the guilt and shame that weighs you down. You are so much more than one or two blips.

I love you all and want to see you succeed in your walk with God.

Remember to work hard and Dream Big!!

Much love,

Christy