Remembers our sins no more

Hebrews 8:10-12
10 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds,
And I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.
11 “And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,
And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
For all will know Me,
From the least to the greatest of them.
12 “For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
And I will remember their sins no more.”

            Keeping His commandments is not a matter of trying to keep some set of rules written down somewhere. These rules are written down on our hearts and minds. When we allow the Holy Spirit to have His way in us, He will automatically keep them. When people forgive us of wrongs that we have done to them, they still remember them and many times are not shy about reminding us of all the times that we have failed them. God is not that way. If we repent and confess our sins, He not only forgives us, but also He forgets them. He doesn’t keep dragging them up to remind us of our failures. If sins we have confessed keep plaguing us, it’s not God pointing them out. It’s either the enemy trying to oppress us, or our own poor self-image that doesn’t want to believe that God could and would forgive us.

If you could hear God speak, I believe this is what He would say:

            "What you have done in the past is gone forever. I do not hold those things against you. You do not have to fear that one day I will chastise you for past wrongs. I only want good for you. I will guide you into the paths of righteousness for My name’s sake. I would not have you bring shame upon My name by wrong actions. I will show you the way to walk in My righteousness, if you will allow My Spirit to control your actions. You are My child, and I want you to walk in My ways. It is for your own good that I desire this. You can trust Me to do good for you. I will not remind you of past sins that are forgiven. You can depend on Me to only remind you of those things for which you have not received forgiveness.”

            26. God remembers my sins no more. Since He doesn’t, then neither should I.

            There is no one that a child would desire to be more like than his/her father. You can be like your Heavenly Father. In fact, you are destined to be like Him. Most of us did not like certain things our fathers habitually said or did. We said to ourselves that we would never say or do those things, especially to our own children. Then what happened? We caught ourselves saying or doing the same thing our fathers said or did. Oh how it irked us! It seemed like we were destined to say or do the same things.

            We are destined to say and do the same things that our Heavenly Father has said or done. That is very good news. Jesus only said and did the things His Father (who is our Father too) said and did. If Jesus did, then so should we.