“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your compassion blot out my transgression.” Psalm 51:1 (NIV)
As I pressed the backspace bar on the keyboard while writing, I watched as the words I had just typed disappeared before my eyes. I thought, “Oh no, what have I done! Whatever words occupied that space are gone forever.” My self talk continued on as I said, “I am glad I did not want to keep that sentence.” Then a thought occurred to me…. That is how God blots out our mistakes. He gently touches the space bar and they are gone, never to be traced again.
It is a comfort to know that God is doing the same thing, as, He writes in, His book of life. All the days of our life are being carefully recorded in, His book. We are told that, He blots out our sins never to remember them again. I like to imagine, that as I ask forgiveness of my sin, He is placing, His fingertips on the spacebar, carefully blotting it out. It is being immediately erased by the hand of God Himself.
The other part of God’s removal of our sin is our part. Once God erases those sins from His sight, we must erase them from our minds. God doesn’t want us to hold on to those unhealthy thoughts of guilt and condemnation. If we have asked Him to forgive us, then we are to believe it has been done. I remember many times I was feeling unforgiven, until I learned that it is the enemy of our soul that wants to hold us in guilt….Not God
Set yourself free from any unnecessary guilt you are holding onto to. Remind yourself that God blots out our sin. Visualize Him carefully placing, His fingers on the backspace bar to blot out your transgression. Then take the time to thank, Him, for using, His eternal eraser.
Annettee Budzban