Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; Isaiah 49:15-16

Our church has a nice LED sign that I enjoy changing. It continually proclaims God’s Word and principles to our community. I try to have at least a dozen messages a week rolling over and over… 24/7! Two weeks ago it got stuck with the same messages, which was an issue because some were dated! I received the new sign part and quickly set about installing it. I turned on the sign and… NOTHIN’!

If you’ve learned about computers you know what RAM, ROM and EPROM memory are. When I changed the sign last time, the messages were locked in. When I turned the sign off and on, the same messages came up. I just could not program anything NEW into it. Now that the memory part had been changed… the computer could not remember ANYTHING… since the NEW part had NOT been TOLD what to remember! Get it?

In a Bible Concordance the concepts forever, forgave and forgot are in just that alphabetic order! Interesting? ‘I’ think so. Because if you are in Christ and you have asked Him to be your Savior and Lord, that is EXACTLY what He has done with your sin. Past, Present and yes… even FUTURE sins!

This concept is a hard one to understand because we humans do not have the ability to do forgive that way. And KNOWING that we sin, it is difficult for us to FEEL like those sins have REALLY been forgiven and forgotten forever! But thank God… it is not our JOB to UNDERSTAND it. It IS our joy to receive it!

In the Bible verse today, it is HARD to imagine a brand new mother forgetting her new nursing baby. But the Bible says that it IS possible! But what is IMpossible is for Jesus Christ to forget about YOU. WHY?? He carries the scars and remembers the pain it took to redeem YOU! Your forgiveness was EXPENSIVE to Him. And YOU are more important to Him than some sin He came and died to remove!

“Lord please forgive me for my sin,” is a common cry to heaven. Guilt, shame and remorse feed that prayer. God knew how much BIGGER His Grace needed to be to overcome your weaknesses. So picture this… the next time you feel like crying out for forgiveness for a sin, for which He has already paid, try listening to Him saying…”What sin?”

Forgotten, forgiven, forever! What a Savior!