GOD WILL NEVER BRING UP EVEN ONE OF OUR SINS
Psalms 25:6,7 Remember, O Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good. O Lord.
How is it that God can forget our sins and still remember the sins of the world? It is not that God forgets our sins, but that he chooses to never bring them up again to affect our relationship with him. Because of Jesus in God’s thinking they never happened. God will not sit through the ages thinking about all the many sins in our life. He will love and enjoy us and our love for him. It was never his intention for us to have a broken relationship with him due to sin. But because of his desire of us to be able to love him, he had to give us a free will. In doing this God knew that there would be a good possibility for us to use our free will to rebel from him. Because of this it tells us in II Samuel 14:14b that God does not take away life; instead, he devised ways so that the banished person may not remain estranged from him. And in I Peter it tells us that even before creation Jesus was chosen to become our redeemer and provide our forgiveness.
God’s mercy and love for us has always been great, but God has to be true to himself as well. God is just and holy. Sin must be punished and he can not show favoritism. All sin must be punished. Only by God providing a means of forgiveness could God remain just and holy. In Jesus’ death he not only provided for our forgiveness and reconciliation, but he also provided the satisfaction needed for God’s justice to be done. Jesus’ atonement for us justified God forgiving us. Jesus made a way for us when we couldn’t ourselves. His suffering, death and resurrection provided a way for God’s love and mercy to be extended to us.
Great is God’s faithfulness, love and mercy. Lamentations 3:22-26 says, “Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”
Even though we still live in the frustration of this world and our flesh, we can be confident that when we stand before the Lord will see only love for us in his eyes. The Lord our God is truly a wonderful God!
Prayer: Thank you Jesus for loving us so much that you would come and died such a terrible death for us. We love you so much. Thank you that you will never bring up one of our sins again to us no matter how terrible they may have been. We love you Lord!
