Forgetting Our Sins
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Our Daily Bread Ministries
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Julie and her husband felt sadness and regret when they learned that their daughter had been shoplifting. But with God’s help, when she came to them weighed down with sorrow, they forgave her—and they helped her make restitution and receive counseling. Some months after the revelation, when their daughter made an offhand comment about how they might not trust her anymore, Julie wondered, What does she mean? She didn’t immediately think about her daughter’s offense because God had removed the sting of it from her mind. She had decided not to dwell in the past but had asked God to help her forgive.
In that moment God gave Julie a taste of His goodness and grace as she experienced the love He extends to His people. God told His people not to “dwell on the past” because He was doing a new thing (Isaiah 43:18-19). He also made the beautiful declaration, “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more” (v. 25). God could choose to hold our sins against us, but because of His love and mercy, He doesn’t. When we repent, He wipes our record clean.
Although our forgiven wrongdoing may have a negative impact on our lives and that of others, God will never hold that offense against us. He will enfold us in His mercy and grace.
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| 0:00.0 | I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake. |
| 0:07.1 | Isaiah 43, verse 25. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:15.0 | Our reading, forgetting our sins, was written and read by Amy Boucher Pie. |
| 0:22.7 | Isaiah Chapter 43 verses 18 through 25. |
| 0:27.9 | Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. |
| 0:32.7 | See, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the |
| 0:40.3 | wilderness and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the |
| 0:48.0 | owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, |
| 0:57.5 | the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise. |
| 1:03.7 | Yet you have not called on me, Jacob. |
| 1:06.6 | You have not wearied yourselves for me, Israel. |
| 1:10.5 | You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, |
| 1:13.4 | nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings, nor |
| 1:19.4 | wearied you with demands for incense. You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me |
| 1:25.6 | or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. |
| 1:29.4 | But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses. |
| 1:36.1 | I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake and remembers your sins no more. |
| 1:52.0 | Thank you. for my own sake and remembers your sins no more. Forgetting our sins. |
| 1:54.4 | Julie and her husband felt sadness and regret when they learned that their daughter |
| 1:58.5 | had been shoplifting. |
| 2:00.6 | But with God's help, |
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