NO RECORD OF SINS
02nd Oct 2013
In 1 Kings 15:5 it says, “For David had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord and had not failed to keep any of the Lord’s commands all the days of his life - except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.” I find this amazing, for when you read the accounts of David’s adultery with Bathsheba, his scheming to cover his sin, eventually leading to the killing of Uriah, it seems that David has blown it for all time - finished!
However, when confronted by Nathan the prophet, David acknowledged his sin, repented, received forgiveness and God continued to bless him and declare that he had always done what was right in the Lord’s eyes! That’s amazing, because if we have done something that was terrible in our own eyes, we can easily carry it through life as a burden that lurks in the background accusing and seeking to blight our pathway.
God not only forgives, but He forgets, restores and continues to work in us and through us as if it had never happened. Psalm 130:3 says, “If you, O Lord kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with you is forgiveness....” Isaiah 43:25 continues the same theme, “I even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sin no more.”
While I was reading that verse about David, the Lord spoke to me and told me that there are some of you who are reading this who through profound failure in the past, having done things of which you were greatly ashamed, cannot get completely free. Those things, although they happened many years ago, keep rearing up and spoiling your peace and telling you that God cannot use you because you failed so badly.
I was then reminded of the the verses above, where it says that He keeps no record of wrongs and that He has both forgiven and forgotten. Remember today, the God who delighted in David, delights in you and has great purposes for your life.
by Charles Sibthorpe
