*The God Who Forgets*
*I, I Am He who blots out your transgressions for My Own sake, and I will not remember your sins. (Isaiah 43:25)*
Father,
When I sin I am tempted to try to blot out my own transgressions. I’m tempted to perform extra spiritual “duties” in a foolish effort to quiet my conscience and blot out my sins. I think that, somehow, a bit of extra Bible reading, or prayer, or fellowship, or fasting, can take away my sins. I act as if I have the power to earn forgiveness. I act as if I can cleanse my soul. What a fool I am! Only you have the authority to forgive sins. Forgive me for dishonoring you by trying to do what only you can do. Forgive me for trying to steal the glory you receive by forgiving all my sins. Forgive me for not believing your promises of forgiveness.
Thank you that you do what I never could do! I cannot remove the deep stain of my sins. cannot cleanse my marred conscience. I cannot make myself clean in your sight. But you can, and you do! You blot out my transgressions! You remove them from your sight. You wash me clean, take away my sins, and make me pure in your sight. The blood of Christ is sufficient to wash away every I have committed and will commit. The blood of Christ is more powerful than the worst of sins. I may be a great sinner, but I know that Christ is an even greater savior. My sins may be great, but I know that the sacrifice of Christ is greater. I trust you to blot out all of my sins by the blood of Christ. I reject any hope I may have in my own merits, and I trust in you to completely wash me clean.
Thank you that have promised not to remember my sins. Even after I repent, I am tempted to remember my sins, and that remembrance often brings condemnation. But when you forgive sins, you completely and totally forgive them. You do not bring them up again and again to condemn me. You deliberately choose not to remember them. Satan is the “Great Reminder” of sins, you are the “Great Redeemer and Forgetter” of suns and iniquity.
*When Satan accuses me, help me to remember that you have promised to forget all of my sins. Help me not to bring up the sins that you have already forgotten. Today, help me to rest in your wonderful, divine forgetfulness.*