Talk About Forgiveness

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“Talk About Forgiveness”
“If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who
shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou
mayest be feared.” Psalm 130:3,4
There is not a person reading this, that, if they went “Down
Memory Lane” couldn’t recall, with vivid clarity the crushing
moments of sins committed. The thought is that we can
“mark” them, but God has forgiven them and even forgotten
them!! (Read Hebrews 8:12 & 10:17). Also, Jeremiah wrote,
“I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more” (31:34b).
A forgiveness that has, as one of its ingredients, forgetting,
is the kind God has for the penitent sinner. Our Book also says,
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (I John 1:9).
It would be of great benefit for all of us to not only forgive
others, but to forgive ourselves! If God has forgiven us, don’t
you think we ought to forgive ourselves? And, if He forgets
them, one could easily pray that God would help us to do the
same. (Pretty easy at my age!) I think it would also be a good
goal to reach in our lives, that we would endeavor to “dis-
remember” the faults, shortcomings and sins of other
repentant sinners. Jesus said it best in five verses in the
gospels (Matt 7:3-5 & Luke 6:41,42) and emphasizing these
words, “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine
own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote
out of thy brother’s eye. ” It takes a clear eye and kind heart to
help others. I told you He said it best!! -T.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” OCTOBER 25, 2025, devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread.  The Baptist Bread