Micah 7:18-19 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
There are many great and beautiful aspects of the love and nature of God; they are more numerous than all the grains of sand on every beach on this planet. One of them is that when He forgives our sins, He does not partially forgive us, He forgives us completely. God forgives us of all of the iniquity we have committed and all the wrongs that have caused us to feel guilty. All of this, God tramples underfoot and casts into the deepest part of the grandest ocean. I have heard it said that when God cast our sins into the depths of the sea, He erects a sign that says: “No Fishing.” The problem with too many people is that they go back and try to resurrect something God has buried. They want to continue to feel guilty over something God has promised to remember no more (Isaiah 43:25).
Does this mean that God forgets about our sin? There are numerous places in the Bible that God has reminded us of the sins of some of the Old and New Testament Saints. How would we know about the first sin ever committed, the sins of the entire world when God destroyed it with a flood, or the sins of Peter when he denied even knowing Jesus? God does not forget as we humans recognize forgetfulness; he chooses not to remember our sins; he does not hold them against us. When someone does us wrong, we have a choice, we can forgive them and never think about it again, or we can let it eat at us like cancer that will eventually destroy the fellowship we have with the one that did us wrong.
When God forgives us, He blots it out from our record; our slate is clean; it is just as though that sin had never happened. This forgiveness is possible because our Lord and Savior paid the price. He took the iniquity, the punishment, and retribution for our sins on Himself at the Cross of Calvary. God does not have a flawed memory; what He does have is a love for all people that humanity cannot calculate with human measurements (Romans 5:8; John 3:16). In His great love, grace, and mercy, He chooses not to remember our sins, not to hold them against us. As born again, washed in the Blood, saved believers and followers of Christ Jesus, we have been forgiven and set free from the bonds and chains of sin and Satan, and we are heaven-bound.
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