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Ezekiel 18:22 · World English Bible

Ezekiel 18:22 Meaning None of His Transgressions That He Has

None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

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What does Ezekiel 18:22 mean?

The past a person has turned from stops being read back to him. Old failures lose their standing as evidence, no longer summoned to define who he is now, and the self-image is freed from the file of everything he did wrong.

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The past a person has turned from stops being read back to him. Old failures lose their standing as evidence, no longer summoned to define who he is now, and the self-image is freed from the file of everything he did wrong. The LORD stops reciting the charges.

What counts instead is the new pattern he is living from. He shall live in his righteousness, moving as the man he has become rather than the one he was. When the old record stops being replayed, a person walks out from under it and builds forward on clean ground.

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Live Ezekiel 18:22 today

  1. When the old shame surfaces today, in the shower, in the car, at two in the morning, let it pass through without opening the whole file again. One sentence, then back to what you were doing.
  2. If you have already apologized to someone and made it right, stop reintroducing it. Let the friendship live in the present rather than at the scene of the old thing.
  3. When someone brings up your worst stretch, or your own mind does it in a meeting, answer from who you are now. You do not owe anyone a replay.

What record am I still reading back to myself that has already been closed?

The same truth in other traditions

Zen

A student asks about his old mistakes, and the teacher says, that was yesterday's weather. Today's sky is being handed to you now.

Stoicism · Seneca

Stop dragging what is finished behind you. Looking back at what cannot be changed only spends the hours you still have.

Buddhism

The second arrow is the one you shoot into yourself after the first wound. The pain of a past act and the story you keep telling about it are two different injuries.

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