He Doesn't Remember How Bad You Were!

Hebrews 8:12
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

"Oh, if only you have seen my husband in the early years of our marriage. He had such an explosive temper that I used to seek shelter at my mother's house!"

"No one would have ever guessed that she had such a promiscuous past."

"As a young boy, he would always lie through his teeth and not even bat an eyelid!"
Man looks at you and remembers what you were like in the past. But when God looks at you, He doesn't remember that you were once a little rascal, drunk or drug addict. He looks at you and doesn't remember that act of adultery nor the mess you were in. In the new covenant, God declares, "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

It is as if God is saying, "When you come to Me, please don't think that I am thinking about your sins. Don't think that every time I look at you, I am reminded of your sins. Not only am I not keeping a record, but I am also not mindful of your failures and shortcomings. I am telling you that I will remember your sins no more - never again!"

God can say that all our sins He remembers no more because there was a time when He remembered them and punished every one of them - in the body of His Son at the cross. God punished every one of them until Jesus cried out, "It is finished!" (John 19:30). So today, God can justly say, "Your sins I will remember no more."

We all know that we sin from time to time. But the good news is that all our sins have already been dealt with at the cross. They have been washed away by Jesus' blood (Revelation 1:5). So now, when we come into God's presence, He sees us without our sins. And when God talks about us, He only talks about the good things that we have done, not the wrong things because He remembers them no more!