December 20, 2023 … God’s Forgetfulness …

December 20, 2023 … God’s Forgetfulness  …    

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group Sanctus Real singing  … Forgiven …  Poignantly singing of God’s faithfulness and forgiveness.  

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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 43:25  [ESV] … 

25 I - yes, I alone - will blot out your sins for My own sake and will never think of them again. 

… God’s amazing, faithful, promise to forgive His chosen people and to even forget their (our) sins.   

Highlight Passage (in context) …Isaiah 43:18-25  … USE THIS LINK … 

… In spite of our sinfulness as God’s chosen, He promises to fulfill His covenant of forgiveness for His faithful remnant of believers.                               

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Reference Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-23 (NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s promise, thru Jeremiah, to have new mercies everyday for His faithful believers.   

Reference Passage: … Matthew 18:21-22 (NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches Peter (and us) that born-again Christians must be willing to offer forgiveness FOREVER, … just as He, our Lord, is faithful to forgive us.       

Reference Passage:… Ephesians 4:32 (NLT] …  

32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you. 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to be willing to forgive others just as Christ was (AND IS) willing to forgive them (us).       

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 8:10-12 (NLT] …  USE THIS LINK ... 

… God’s NEW Covenant promise to forgive His faithful remnant of believers and to remember their (our) Sins NO MORE.                    

Reference Passage: … 1John 1:9 (NLT] …  

9 But if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.   

… God’s glorious promise, thru the Apostle John, teaching that our Lord is willing (and able) to forgive and cleanse His faithful believers of any/all sin … IF … they (we) are willing to confess and repent of our sins.         

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author , Kenneth Petersen -  AT THIS LINK -  Tells about Jill Price, who suffered from hyperthymesia, which gave here the ability,…  or really the curse, … to be able to remember and relate, in detail, EVERYTHING that had ever happened to her.  One can just imagine going thru life and not being able to selectively choose to let go of our past.    

So, how blessed are we Christians … that our omniscient God has promised to forgive … and FORGET … the sins of any/all who are willing to confess and repent of their (our) sins and to follow our faithful Lord?  Oh, … today, … as I write about the wondrous promises from our Lord (see Scriptures above) to cast our sins, as believers in Christ, into the sea of forgetfulness, … I pray that all reading with me today recognize just how wonderful the forgiveness and divine forgetfulness of our Lord really is.   

So,…  join me to thank God for His faithful forgetfulness; and let us - in faith - let go, by repenting of all the sins He, my Lord, has forgiven?  Join me - right now! -  to praise God for His forgiving forgetfulness.      

   

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your willingness to forgive and cleanse me from any of my past sins.   

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … with grateful thanks, Lord, for Your willingness to forgive, and even to forget, our sins.   … Amen  

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