create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit / a right spirit within me

Once we confess our sins, God forgives us of our sins and He also forgets them! To forgive literally means “causing it to leave” / “sending away” (Matt. 12:31; Rom. 4:7). When God forgives us of our sins, He forgives us of our sins because of the Lord’s blood which covers us and He also causes them to depart from us!

God forgives us of our sins and at the same time He also forgets them!

Jeremiah 31:34b says For all of them will know Me, from the little one among them even to the great one among them, declares Jehovah, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. When we forgive someone for offending us, we hardly forget what they did to us. Nevertheless, […]