He Forgives! He Forgets!

He Forgives! He Forgets!
Remembering and forgetting are hardly what we can always control. We often forget what we wish we remember and remember what we wish to forget. At some point the ability to recall is seen as a positive trait and at other times that can be very detrimental and being able to forget would seem a great virtue.

When we think of God, we often put Him in the three compartmental box of the omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent and it's ok. What we don't always see is His ability to forget which balances His omniscience with His omnipotence. Otherwise, His omnipotence would have been a weakness to Him.

I'm glad He forgets. Because when it comes to my sins and iniquities, He knows I'll love Him to forget.
[My Offline Bible] Jeremiah 31 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Not only does He forgives, He forgets also. Where men would research your past and use it to deal with your present, God on the other hand sees your future and forgets your past. Condemnation is a tool of control in the hands of man, but not with God. When we have confessed our sins, His faithfulness and justice demands of Him to forgive, cleanse and forget. This is the height of grace. He does this so that we can do it towards one another.

There we learn and conform to who He wants us to be. It's really very easy to accept that He forgives. To accept that He forgets is the hard part. We find it hard to forgive ourselves and forget because we believe He has put our sin always before Him and at His right hand. And if He hasn't forgotten how dare we forget? If He is still out for a revenge, how dare we walk away as if there is nothing at stake? So we desire to atone for the sin and punish ourselves comfortlessly without end with disregard for the blood of Jesus we so much profess to believe in.

We have a problem with forgiving ourselves and forgetting it. This perspective isn't a way of being careless or being irresponsible or unaccountable for our deeds. It is a way of moving on to greater things God has in store. We weren't created to commit sin and so we shouldn't permit our sins either in the act or in the guilt, to stop us from doing what God has sent us to do.

No Christian would be proud of going into error. If anyone is still enjoying sin then such isn't a Christian yet. When we sin, God would want to come around, pick us up from the fall, wash the mud off us and keep us back in the race expecting that we forget that and move on.

Another reason for our difficulty in forgetting is that people around hardly forget. And not would they not forget, they even remind others and it gets to us. Once we allow that get to us, we get back into the past and get stuck if not careful. We allow the errors of the past to control our present emotions and productivity. The truth is that we all have our past. We can only grow by dealing with that past through repentance and change, forgetting it and moving on. God would want us to do that irrespective of who remembers or who don't.

To those who would rather dig into your past and bring your sins into remembrance, it is their weakness not to forget. It must not affect your present day commitment and resolutions about God and service towards Him. And it's time we too forget what others did in times past. That maybe tough if we had suffered them directly but we must remember that God forgives and forgets so that we too can learn how to forgive and forget.

Even when it's tough to forget, make sure you forgive, if that's done properly even when you remember, the bitterness won't be there and we all can live in freedom to forge ahead and live today and tomorrow. Good Morning!

[My Offline Bible] Romans 8 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 8 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 18 32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: 33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? 34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. 35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

[My Offline Bible] Micah 7 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 103 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.