I WILL NOT FORGET IT
Today's reading: Amos 1-4
"This is what the Lord says: The people of Damascus have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it..." Amos 1:3 NLT
Amos begins his prophetic book with a statement that will be repeated four more times...
'This is what the Lord says...The people of...sinned again and again...I will not forget it...'
Amos records what God says about Damascus, Gaza, Tyre and Ammon, who were Amos-time threats to God's people, the Israelites.
God sets a mark on these enemy nations.
He states clearly that He knows what they have done.
He also proclaims He will not forget it.
That single phrase, I will not forget it, has caught my attention this morning.
When it comes to enemies and their attacks on God's people, God will not forget.
And I believe it.
One day there will come a reckoning. One day they will pay for what they've done. One day what He remembers, He will correct.
It's God's remembering that gives me pause...
You see, the same God who chooses not to forget what enemy lands have done to His people, chooses to forget the sins we bring to Him.
He forgives and forgets each and every wrong we present to Him for forgiveness.
He chooses to forget those things, while remembering the wrongs of the enemy.
He chooses to forgive and forget--as far as the east is from the west.
Doesn't that show His majesty, His justness, His love for His people?
