This is Pastor Austin Edwards on MyBridge Radio, keeping you connected.
My wife has an unbelievable memory when it comes to lyrics of a song. You put any country song recorded in the 1990’s and she’ll be able to sing it! But at the same time… she struggles to remember where she left her phone or the TV remote or what she was supposed to get at the grocery store. See… there are certain things we’re good at remembering and certain things we’re good at forgetting. I’ve noticed that I’m really good at remembering the times I’ve failed God. Replaying the moments where I chose sin over Jesus. And that’s led me to be really good at forgetting the Gospel.
Do you ever find yourself doing that? Remembering your sins & forgetting God’s grace? God has a perfect memory, right? He’s never missed anything. He doesn’t have a foggy recollection. And that can lead us to think that God’s memory works like ours. That He remembers our sins like we do. But in Hebrews 8:12, God says, “I will remember their sins no more”. That means that the sins we can’t forget… God has chosen not to remember. The worst moments, the deepest regrets, the biggest sins…
God chooses not to remember. How? Because those sins were pinned to Jesus on the cross 2000 years ago. And guess what… they stayed there.
So, if you’re anything like me, and are really good at remembering your sins and forgetting the Gospel, here’s the good news. When we keep coming to God with our head hanging low apologizing for doing this or that, He looks at us and says…
“What sin? I have no memory of you ever doing anything wrong”. He has chosen to forgot all of our sin because Jesus paid for it. In the 1800’s, hymnwriter John White wrote, “Well may the Accuser roar, of ills that I have done: I know them all, and thousands more: Jehovah knoweth none!”. That’s the good news of the Gospel.
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