NOTES for Eze 18:21-28
We very often accuse God. We accuse Him of our troubles; we think that He directed us down the wrong path, that we should not have listened to Him. Although in Russian the verb for "make a mistake" is reflexive: it cannot be that someone else "mistook" us; we always make mistakes ourselves. Or, no better, when something in our life is not going well, we think that God is punishing us. But this is not so either. Most often we make mistakes, and the failures in our life are simply the results of those mistakes.
Does this mean that we must fear mistakes all the time and punish ourselves for every misstep? Of course not. We can entrust to God the mistakes we made in the past, and He will change our past. God will not make it so that what has already happened did not happen; that would be violence against us and our memory. But He can deliver us from the consequences of sin, which would otherwise have come inexorably and which we would have considered God's punishment.
If we entrust ourselves to God, repent, and let Him into our life, He will deliver us from the consequences of the sins and mistakes we have committed, thereby healing our past and changing both it and us ourselves. Therefore we can stop fearing the future, stop fearing that we will stumble. We are free, and fear no longer has power over us.