“I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.” – Isaiah 43:25 (NASB)
“I can forgive but I’ll never forget.” Have we ever heard
someone say this? Maybe, we say it as well thinking that it is close to impossible
to truly forget. It’s possible but we have to want to. Forgiveness, we can do,
but if we can’t forget, the offense remains a thing and threatens to negates our
forgiveness. Our Lord God declares in our verse today that He wipes out our
sins and purposely removes them from His memory. This verse is probably the high point of
grace in the Old Testament. In spite of our utter unworthiness, the Lord in His
grace has created a way that He can forgive our sins and grant righteousness
without compromising His holiness. When as a sinner we recognize we can’t
achieve our own righteousness by works, and in repentance call on the mercy of
God, the Lord covers us with His own divine righteousness by grace. Through the
faith he gifts to us, we stand forgiven. It is that righteousness that God sees
when He looks upon us. We can forgive and by the same grace we can choose to
forget by refusing to dwell on the memories.
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