For years I would beat myself up over everything I did...
“Why did I say that? Why did I do that? Why did I blow it, again!!”
After years of these tormenting thoughts, the Lord gave me a picture:
I saw a table stacked with dirty, yucky, caked-on-food dishes that were piled high as if someone had left a huge mess on a dining room table. From out of nowhere, I saw the white-robed arm of the Lord swiping those dishes off the table until all that remained was the clean, white, linen tablecloth underneath – pure and pristine.
These dirty dishes, all piled up, plate-upon-plate, useless and dirty, represented every negative thought about myself. In one fell swoop, Jesus told me I was never to think that way again.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17
Occasionally, when these thoughts try to return, I see His arm making a clean slate of the table of my mind. I know these thoughts are not from Him – I know I don’t want them! I simply don’t receive or give them a place to taunt me anymore. I am new; I am free. You can be too.