Wednesday, 10 October 2018
A God Like You
Dr RJ Sing
“Where is another God like you, who pardons the sins of the survivors among his people? You cannot stay angry with your people, for you love to be merciful. 19 Once again you will have compassion on us. You will tread our sins beneath your feet; you will throw them into the depths of the ocean!”
This is such a Beautiful Scripture. When God forgives, He does not do so partially. He totally forgives you. Everything that you have ever done wrong, everything that could ever make you feel guilty, every accusation that the enemy could ever bring against you, God has taken away into the sea of forgetfulness. A preacher once said that when God casts your sins into the sea, He puts up a sign that says, “NO FISHING”.
Don’t try to fish something that has been buried. If God has forgiven you, you are forgiven. There are no questions to be asked. God’s forgiveness is total and complete. In Isaiah God speaks to His people saying: “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.” (Isaiah 43:25 NIV)
When God forgives you, He blots out the record. You have a clean slate. It is just as though that which was forgiven had never taken place. Not only does He blot out the record, but He blots it out from His own memory. He says that He will remember our sins no more. When God forgives, He forgets. Your past has been forgotten.
From the October 2018 issue, themed Jesus Christ My Great High Priest.
