Saturday Reading: Isaiah 43:25-26
Key Verse: Isaiah 43:25
25 I, I am He who blots out your sins for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
Devotion:
Some dreams that we have are very strange and don’t seem to make much sense apart from at the time of the dream when you are in it. Many times we cannot remember our dreams other than a few minutes after we wake up because they are released from our minds. When we try to forget something we cannot forget as quickly or as easily as we tend to forget dreams – maybe it’s because we are the ones trying to forget. So when we get told that God will forget our sins we sometimes have a hard time with that... but take a look at how easy it is to forget your dreams. Yes, you may be able to recall parts of it at a later stage when you bring it back to try and tell someone but the impact of that dream is gone.
God wants to put aside all of our sins in that same manner. He cannot abide sin so wants us to be free from sin so that we can commune with Him. If we are willing to pass those sins over to Christ and trust Him to forget about them then we will be in that place where we can commune with God. Christ is the one who wants to take those sins away so that we can be set free, but in order to do that He has to be told about them; we have to admit those sins to Him. He has promised to forgive us of those sins and that promise has been set forth long before Christ actually came to earth in Human form. Isaiah reminds us that we have to bring those sins to His notice so that He can carry out that promise that He promised from the beginning of time.
No matter how bad a nightmare is or how weird a dream is, it is only that. It cannot physically affect our lives because it is only a dream – we may let it affect us mentally but that is our problem. Christ does not want our sins to affect our eternal life with Him so He is willing to forget those sins as long as we bring them to Him. Just like it may comfort us to tell someone about a dream we had, we will be comforted when we bring our sins to Christ and place them at His feet. That fact alone shows me how much He loves me and makes me want to go out and love others for His sake!
Points to Ponder:
Do you remember your dreams?
Do you bring your sins to Christ?
