Does God Forget?

God longs to forgive sinners! But in the minds of many people this thought seems too good to be true. Countless sermons have been preached to convince guilt-ridden individuals that it is true. Many of these sermons emphasize the idea of God not only forgives the sinner, but He also forgets the sin. I’ve often said it myself, never doubting its soundness.

I cannot set aside that sometime I was questioning the biblical basis of God grace of forgiveness. But after reading Hebrews 8:12 “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” He says He’ll remember them no more that promise not to remember them make me feel assure and confidant. But it doesn’t mean that we are allowed to continue in sinning after all God will forgive us.

If we confess and as forgiveness, God promises to forgive and never bring up your sin against us.

Genuine Faith

In these days when everyone is so good, it’s sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the impostor and the real things. Even within the church, some behave as if they can satisfy God by skillfully acting out the part of a Christian.

Sometimes there are people who have learned to walk, talk, and act like Christians, think they really are. By outward appearances, they are. But if they have never personally placed their trust in Jesus Christ, they are phonies. They lack that “genuine faith” which alone brings true salvation (2 Tim 1:5)

We deceive ourselves if we believe that pious language, good behavior or church attendance is the key to heaven. Only by trusting the Lord Jesus as Savior can we avoid the rude awakening on the day of judgement and faced the misguided world when we walked into a glace road.

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? - 2 Cor. 13:5

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot feel

When Christ became a man, He showed His willingness to be tempted, tested, hated, and hurt. During His life on earth, He faced the same struggles we encounter. He had been sympathetic to man’s weaknesses before He came, but by taking a human body He identified with us in a dramatic way. His incarnation revealed the extent to which He would go to pay for our sin and to be touched by the trials and infirmities that make life so difficult to us.

On the smaller scale, people try to empathize with the suffering of others. Recently I know someone who feels being lost and frustrated in life. She was heartbreak and frightened by the future which is not easy for her to bring her feet into the right path. I know it is sad and touching but all of this is nothing compared with Christ’s coming into our world. No one else left so high a position to feel what mortal man feels. Jesus gave up heaven’s glory and was tempted in all points as we are, yet He did not sin. He bore our sins on the cross so that He could be merciful to us.

We have one who cares. When face temptations and trials, we can go to Jesus. He knows the feeling.

What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee

We would not be human if we were not sometimes afraid. There are so many things to cause us fear and our enemy makes full use of such occasions.

We may be approaching an operation or perhaps even he going through a time of sleeplessness, and this is a favourite time for Satan to seek to bring up all kinds of fears.

Let us not give way to fear or allow our enemy to triumph, but each time we are tempted to be afraid let us repeat the words or our text, especially the latter part, "What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee", then all our fears will disappear.

What time i am afraid my soul shall trust in Thee, Then peace shall fill my heart and all my fears shall fee. - Psalm 56.3

I have made, and I will bear

And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. - Isaiah 46:4

How often there comes to us a feeling of helplessness and weakness. It may be we have had many trials and, perhaps, great troubles and are quite bowed down by them.

It is not always easy to climb up from the valley of despair to the mountain top of joy and gladness. To all of us there comes days of darkness and gloom, but with wonderful tenderness and love our Lord would remind us that we cannot life ourselves out of the slough of despond, but would urge us to listen to His voice as He says “I have made, and I will bear”, and gently lifts us up to share again sweet fellowship with him.