NO TRESPASSING

Hey Warriors, Lawrence here.

I heard a man preach about this topic a while back. Now maybe I’m just a hillbilly but these words, as simple as they are, have stuck with me!

NO TRESPASSING/NO FISHING

These words were used in a sermon, and they have helped me immensely with some of my PTSD issues. I have discovered that I can use those words to give advice to others too. I was asked the other day exactly what these words mean to me, and to explain why they have stick with me. After dwelling on this question for several days without being able to put an answer into words, my wife said something to me that made the answer so simple and so clear.

I’ll explain! NO TRESPASSING means you shouldn’t be there! NO FISHING means just that, DON’T FISH THERE. So when we give God our burdens he takes them and they are no longer ours. So don’t trespass to find them and live with them again. When we ask for God to forgive us of our sins He does. He casts our sins into the Sea of Forgetfulness where they are forgotten by Him. That’s where it needs to stay. NO FISHING means not to go fishing in the Sea of Forgetfulness to try and catch and remember those memories.

With all that said, here is the answer as to why these words MEAN so much to me. To be honest there is no exact answer. Let me explain. Every situation is different. Every memory is different. My state of mind is different from minute to minute in any situation. NO TRESPASSING can mean one thing if I go back to that memory/place willingly to deal with it. It may mean something different if I go there to offer help to another person from that particular experience. It has a very different meaning if a memory intrudes on me when I don’t want it to. These situations can happen at any time. Some happen quite often to me. This has all lead me to understand that NO TRESPASSING and NO FISHING means that I am not supposed to go back to those memories and stay there. I might have to walk through them but I can not camp out there and let them pull me back in.

When we give God our burdens, He takes them away from us, why should we trespass to take them back? When God forgives us of our sins and throws them into the Sea of Forgetfulness, why would we go fishing for them?

Bottom line is this! NO TRESPASSING to take our burdens back! NO FISHING to remember our sins again!

This is one of the tools that I have learned to use to help myself. I hope you can find meaning in it as well.

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