In the Puritan Thomas Watson's work "The Lord's Prayer", he tells us what God’s forgiveness of us looks like. He says it is God passing by sin, wiping off the score and giving us a discharge:
1). To forgive sin is to take away iniquity – when the heavy burden of sin is upon us, God in pardoning, lifts it off from the conscience and lays it on Christ – Isaiah 53:6 – “and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
2). To forgive sin is to cover it – Psalm 85:2 – “Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin.”
3). To forgive sin is to blot it out – Isaiah 43:25 – “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” The Hebrew language here alludes to a creditor when his debtor pays him. It is ‘accounting’ terminology: when God forgives sin he blots out the debt, he draws the red lines of Christ’s blood over it and so crosses out the debt in the book.
4). To forgive sin is to cast our sins into the depths of the sea, which implies burying them out of sight. Micah 7:19 – “Thou wilt cast all our sins into the depths of the sea” – God will throw them in, not as a cork that rises again, but as lead that sinks to the bottom.
Who wouldn't want this kind of forgiveness. Run into the arms of Christ who is ready and willing to intercede on your behalf.
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