Remembering our chains

Remember your chains
Remember the prison that once held you
Before the love of God broke through
Remember the place you were without grace
When you see where you are now
Remember your chains
And remember your chains are gone

There's no one more thankful to sit at the table
Than the one who best remembers hunger's pain
And no heart loves greater than the one that is able
To recall the time when all it knew was the shame
The wings of forgiveness can take us to heights never seen
But the wisest ones, they will never lose sight of where they were set free
Love set them free

So remember your chains
Remember the prison that once held you
Before the love of God broke through
Remember the place you were without grace
When you see where you are now
Remember your chains
And remember your chains are gone

And in the light of all that we've been forgiven of
We will find our hearts fuller and freer
To give and receive God's love

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"Though God has forgiven and forgotten your past sins, yet don't
forget them yourself" -- Jonathan Edwards

Without remembering how chained I was, I won't quite know how free I
am in God's grace. I go between two extremes of being super hard on
myself and being super lenient...

May we learn to forgive ourselves as God forgives us.
May we hold nothing which God has already forgiven us of against ourselves.
May we live freely, aware of and in need of God's grace. Daily.