I think I will spend the remainder of November thinking about the blessings we have in God. So why not start with a double blessing day?
“Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him and in whose spirit is no deceit.” [Ps 32:1-2]
The word for “blessed” is ‘esher in the Hebrew. It could simply be described as “How Happy!”
“How happy!” we are when our sins are forgiven and covered. John reminds us that “If we confess our sins, [God] is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” [1 John 1:9]
God is faithful to us. He forgives all our sins in Christ Jesus. They are covered by the blood shed by God’s very Son on that cross nearly 2000 years ago. Forgiven. I can think of no greater blessing than to know that because of Jesus, nothing now stands between my Father God and me.
“How happy!” we are when the LORD does not count our sins against us ever again. I have often heard it said that the LORD will both forgive and forget our sins. How can the All-Knowing God forget anything?
When we say that God forgets our sins, it means exactly what the Psalmist says here. God does not count them against us. Once they are forgiven in Christ, they are gone. We need never worry that one day God will remind us of them or change His mind and condemn us because of them.
Maybe the blessing that is at least equal to or possibly greater than having my sins forgiven in Christ is that assurance that they are forever buried in His love, never to be resurrected.
