Thursday, October 8, 2009

The God Who Forgets

Some of you who read this blog regularly have erroneously thought that I had forgotten my password. Others may have thought I stopped blogging all together. OK, point made, but neither is true. I have been spending so much face to face time with people that Facebook and blogging have been nearly crowded out.

Speaking of forgetting, I ran across a remarkable verse while studying earlier this morning. In Jeremiah 31:34, God tells his people Israel that “he will remember their sins no more.” The God who made our minds with such incredible capacity for memory, himself forgets. What an incredible thought.

When we come to God and ask for his forgiveness, He chooses to forgive and forget our sins and shortcomings. Once forgiven, it is as though they never happened. He frees us from the past so we can fully live for Him in the present. I want to make the most of that.

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