God Forgets
July 15, 2007 · Filed Under All Entries, HE Speaks
“Bless the LORD,…who forgives all your iniquities.”
PSALM 103:1-2 NKJV
God doesn’t remember the past. But I do, you do. You still remember. You’re like me. You still remember what you did before you changed. In the cellar of your heart lurk the ghosts of yesterday’s sins. Sins you’ve confessed; errors of which you’ve repented; damage you’ve done your best to repair…
That horrid lie.
The time you exploded in anger.
Now, honestly. Do you think God was exaggerating when he said he would cast our sins as far as the east is from the west? Do you actually believe he would make a statement like “I will not hold their iniquities against them” and then rub our noses in them whenever we ask for help?
Of course you don’t. You and I just need an occasional reminder of God’s nature, his forgetful nature.
1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume 2
Originally printed in God Came Near
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Psalm 103 is one of the passages which really brings comfort to my heart. It enumerates all the goodness that God gives us that we should be thankful for. One of them is His forgetful nature towards our confessed sins.
I have made mistakes in my life and disobeyed for so many times. If God were like us humans, He would have probably turned His back on me. But thanks be to God that after I confess my sins, He remembers them no more. Most of the time, it is I who fails to forgive myself completely.
Thanks be to God for His never ending love.
bluepanjeet on Sun, 15th Jul 2007 10:51 AM
God is so wonderful and awesome that he tends to forget the most evil of our ways yet he never forget the tiniest good deed that we did for others. Such a divine act of love that no human mind can ever comprehend. I sometimes just cry out of joy and awe alone in the adoration chapel from the great wonder that he gives me.
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iRonnie on Sun, 15th Jul 2007 11:15 AM
amen to that bro! even a hard core criminal will come crying once he fully realize the depth of God’s love.
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Marj on Sun, 15th Jul 2007 11:16 PM
I can relate to that….God is good all the time. He’s a very loving Father!
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