I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.
—Hebrews 8:12
It’s a mind-blowing, breathtaking, invigorating promise: the twice-repeated promise in Hebrews that when God forgives your sins, he forgets them (8:12; 10:17).
How can that be? This way: “We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ . . . By one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy” (Heb 10:10,14). Made holy! Made perfect! By the sacrifice of Jesus.
Can God really forgive your sins and forget them? He could and said he would. Your experience of God’s forgiveness is dependent on your willingness to take him at his word.
Are you repeatedly asking God to forgive what he has already forgiven and forgotten? If so, picture him sighing and saying, “My dear child, I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Take him at his word.