When God Sweeps Up - Isaiah 43:25

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I am the one, I sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more. Isaiah 43:25

I have swept away your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. Isaiah 44:22

All of It

God works and keeps on working in the lives and hearts of believers, in me. Even when I go through dry times and I feel like God has forgotten me. That’s me being self-deceptive. Living in denial. God is with me, and He does expect me to trust and obey Him.

I am in no way able to handle my own sin. It handles me. And the God of all creation knows all about it. He knows all about my sin. Nothing is hidden.

And He sweeps my sin away. The dirt is gone.

He sweeps up my jealousies.

He sweeps up my unrighteous anger.

He sweeps up my unfaithfulness.

He sweeps up my laziness.

He sweeps it ALL up.

Throwing Out the Garbage

Not only does He sweep it away, but He remembers it no more. He sweeps away my sins like a mist! Poof, just like smoke it disappears into the air.

Of course God knows everything, but I think what He means here is that He doesn’t keep account of it. He doesn’t hold it against me.

He sweeps. I am clean. Now, I can return to Him.

And if He sweeps me up and cleans me. What is my righteous response? To keep bringing it up?

He died for me. All of my sins. When I bring it up over and over again, that shows my lack of trust. That’s me thinking that I can do something with those sins. I have some sort of power over them.

I don’t. All the power is in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. And it IS powerful.

He has redeemed me. He bought me with His blood. This was the most powerful and humble act in the history of the world. And my sins were sucked up like so much dirt in a vacuum. Not to be used in legal arguments against me later. No, all of those sins are thrown out like so much garbage.

I am truly and actually His. Today.

Lord, You have swept my house clean. You have bought me for your own sake. I am not God. I serve and worship You. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

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