God Remembers by Horatius Bonar
They do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins
engulf them, they are always before me. Hosea chapter 7 verse
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 smooths 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 chapter 7 verse 2