God remembers!
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"They do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds!
Their sins engulf them—they are always before Me." Hosea 7:2
Sin is . . .
not an accident,
nor a carelessness,
nor a misfortune,
nor a disease,
nor a weakness.
It may be all these, perhaps; but it is something beyond all these—something of a more fatal and terrible character.
Sin is a crime against our Almighty Maker, Sustainer and Judge!
Man's tendency is either to deny, or to extenuate his sin. He either pleads "not guilty"—or he smoothes over his evils, giving them flattering names.
Or if he does not succeed in these, he casts the blame off of himself. He shifts the responsibility . . .
to his nature,
to his circumstances,
to his lack of education,
even to God Himself!
But human sin is not thus to be diluted, or transformed into a shadow. It is infinitely real, true, deep and terrible in the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
Let us never trifle with sin, either in the intellect or the imagination. Let us learn sin's true nature, from the terribleness of the wrath and condemnation threatened by God against every sin, great or small.
God remembers our sins!
His memory never fails in anything.
Nothing escapes it, great or small.
Time does not efface it.
Ages blot out nothing.
To Him, the past is as clear and full as the present.
Other events do not expunge it.
Our own forgetfulness will not cancel it.Though man should forget, God remembers! He will and must, call up our sins at last. Men may try to forget it; to drown all thought of it; to efface all traces of it—but God will bring it to remembrance.
God remembers our sins! Nothing can make Him forget. He has an iron memory!
God remembers . . .
the person;
the time;
the circumstances;
the thing itself;
public or secret.
"God does not remember our sins!" is the world's great motto!
"They do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds!
Their sins engulf them—they are always before Me." Hosea 7:2