Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our Reading titled, Sins Remembered No More, was written by Adam R. Holes.

I never saw the ice, but I felt it.

The back end of the pickup I was driving, my grandfather's, fish-tailed.

One swerve, two, three, and I was airborne, flying off a 15-foot embankment.

I remember thinking, this would be awesome if I wasn't going to die.

A moment later, the truck crunched into the steep slope

and rolled to the bottom. I crawled out of the crushed cab, unscathed. The truck was utterly

totaled that December morning in 1992. God had spared me, but what about my grandfather?

What would he say?

In fact, he never said a single word about the truck.

Not one.

There was no scolding, no repayment plan, nothing.

Just forgiveness.

And a grandfather's smile that I was okay.

My grandfather's grace reminds me of God's grace in Jeremiah 31.

There, despite their tremendous failings,

God promises a restored relationship with his people,

saying,

I will forgive their wickedness,

and I will remember their sins no more.

I'm sure my grandfather never forgot that I'd wrecked his truck, but he acted just like God does here, not remembering it, not shaming me, not making me work to repay the debt I rightfully

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