Praise God—Sunday is almost here. We get to go back to church again! In order to help us get ready for Sabbath worship, here is Thomas Watson, from his, “The Great Gain of Godliness” book. (This book is elucidating Malachi 3:16-18). . . .
“See the mercifulness of God to His children, Who blots their sins out of His book of remembrance, and writes their good deeds in His book of remem-brance: ‘I, even I, am He that blots out your transgressions,’ (Isa. 43:25). This is a metaphor borrowed from the case of a creditor who takes his pen and blots out the debt owing to him; so says God, I will ‘blot out your transgres-sions.’ Or as the Hebrew has it, ‘I am blotting them out.’
“God in forgiving sin passes an act of oblivion or amnesty (forgetting): ‘I will remember their sin no more,’ (Jer. 31:34). God will not upbraid His people with their former offenses. We never read that when Peter repented Christ upbraided him for his denial of his Lord. Oh, the heavenly indulgence and kindness of God to His people! He remembers everything but their sins. He writes down their good thoughts and speeches in a merciful book of remem-brance; but their sins are as if they had never been; they are carried into the land of oblivion."
