“Any mental picture of your life that focuses on past sins is lie and thus comes from the Devil. Jesus loves you and has forgiven you your sins, so there is no room for having a downcast spirit. Whatever persuades you otherwise is truly a waste of time. It is also something that offends the heart of our very tender lover. On the other hand, if the mental picture of your life consists in what you can be or could be, then it comes from God.” Padre Pio

How much time we waste listening to the lies of Satan, who seeks to entrap us, keep us in bondage and ultimately destroy us. The sins of our past are one of his favorite devises of bondage. He sows the seed of doubt as to our sincerity in confession or as to God’s forgiveness. God tells us that when he forgives, he casts our sins into the depth of the seas. Whom will we believe, the One who loved us by laying down his life that we may live eternally, or the one who heaps one lie after the other to confuse us.?