Have you ever been caught up in a chore of some kind and just had thoughts come flooding into your mind?
Maybe you’re doing the laundry or driving to work or out walking, mowing the grass or just daydreaming and something that has brought you pain or guilt comes rolling in like the coastal fog or a wave to the seashore?
I have – and if I’m not careful, I start to mull it over, re-hash it and find that the hurt, worry or pain are still there.
That’s when I realize I haven’t completely turned it over to the Lord.
“Love does not remember wrongs done against it. 6 Love is never happy when others do wrong, but it is always happy with the truth. 7 Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits.” I Corinthians 13:5-7 ERV
Love doesn’t remember a wrong!!!!
Now that’s a hard one to swallow. But thank God He doesn’t. You notice I said He doesn’t because God is love and it’s His character to “Not Remember”. He isn’t holding our sins against us – quite the opposite! When we accept His forgiveness, He remembers our sin NO MORE.
Aren’t you glad that you can come to Him knowing He won’t condemn you for the things in your past? All things are new.
“And I will forgive the wrongs they have done, and I will not remember their sins.'” Hebrews 12:8 ERV
God wipes the slate clean.
Most of us remember the chalkboards that were in our school classrooms. The teacher would put up math problems, penmanship drills, and spelling words for us to copy down. Then she would grab an eraser and wipe the work away.
All that would remain was the chalk dust and a faint impression of what had previously been there. But when she picked up the big eraser with the chamois side to it, the board was completely clean. No evidence of what had once been remained.
That is just a crude example of God’s forgiveness.
“Â I, I am the one who wipes away all your sins. I do this to please myself. I will not remember your sins.” Isaiah 43:25 ERV
” You were dead, because you were sinful and were not God’s people. But God let Christ make you alive, when he forgave all our sins. 14  God wiped out the charges that were against us for disobeying the Law of Moses. He took them away and nailed them to the cross.” Colossians 2:13-14 CEV
If your plagued by guilt or past failures, bring them to the cross and let the blood of Jesus wipe the slate clean.
Kristy, your post this morning was extremely timely. Not more than five seconds before I read this, I had that very thing happen where a memory of something I was ashamed of a came rolling back and threatening to engulf me in guilt. What a sweet Savior we have, who not only cleanses our sin but then chooses to forget it.