It is a common saying among men, "I can forgive, but I cannot forget." The tide of human affection may rise at times to such a height as to cover the tablet on which memory has engraved the record of my misdeeds; but when the tide retires, the record is there. Not so the love of God. That mighty flood tide not only covers the tablet, but obliterates the inscription forever, so that no trace of it remains—"Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." Heb. 8:1212For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. (Hebrews 8:12). Precious words! God can not only forgive but forget.
God's eye of infinite holiness cannot discern a single stain of guilt upon the conscience that has been once purged by the precious blood of Christ. All the sins and iniquities of the believer are plunged in the waters of eternal oblivion. God has pledged Himself never to remember them. He can say, I have "not beheld iniquity in Jacob." Man cannot undertake to forget. He cannot prevent memory from throwing up at times upon its surface the record of the past, but God can. The atoning work of the Savior has forever canceled the believer's guilt so that it can never again rise against him.
The believer's peace is founded on the blood of Christ and the imperishable Word of God.