God doesn’t forget.

That sounds like a scary phrase, huh?

There are a lot of things in my life that I sure hope that God will forget. There are a lot of things that I’ve done that I sure hope God doesn’t remember in any way.

God has a good memory. And He does remember. But it’s not the things that we think He remembers.  It’s not the things the we would remember, both about ourselves or others.

For God, it’s not our sin He remembers.  Scripture tells us that for God, when we ask for forgiveness, God forgets our sins and He has removed them as far as the east is from the west.

So then, what is it that He remembers? Listen to what is written in Deuteronomy 4 today:

For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors.

God remembers the promises He has made. He remembers to be true to His word and to His covenant to never leave nor forsake us.

This passage in Deuteronomy is about how the people would forget and would disobey. They would not do right and would depart. And yet in that, God didn’t forget.  He didn’t forget His word to be true to His people. And when they returned, He restored.

God will be true to His promises.  He will be true to His word. Don’t fear, don’t worry, don’t fret.

God remembers.  He remembers what He promised to do. And He will be true to His word.

We can trust in Him.