Many times the evil one whispers to us that we cannot trust God with our sins of yesterday. The deceptive accuser brings up accusations of past transgressions and we are tempted to be devastated by the condemnation of past failures. It is in these times that we must firmly grasp the promises of God and trust Him with our yesterdays. The following promises provide hope for the ones with ears to hear. Psalm 103:12 says God has removed our transgressions as “far as the east is from the west.” In Jeremiah 31:34 God promises those with repentant hearts, “I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” The prophet Micah reminds us that God “will cast our sins into the depths of the sea.” One may wonder how God, who is perfectly just, could accomplish such infinitely merciful acts. The answer echoes clearly through the pages of holy Scripture. Romans 8:1 assures us, “there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” God has granted His infinite mercy to us through Christ Jesus. This is why Ephesians 1:7 trumpets eternal mercy with these words, “In Him (Christ) we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins (yesterday, today, and tomorrow).” We can trust God with our past sins because Christ has done away with the sins of those who trust in Him. The Bible says that Jesus “bore our sins in His body” (1 Pet. 2:24) and that He “nailed our sins to the cross” (Col. 2:14) and that He buried our sins in the tomb (Rom. 6) and that on that glorious Sunday morning when He rose from the dead, He rose victoriously over our sin (1 Cor. 15). These promises of hope will not provide excuses for irreverent living, but rather strength for the journey for the broken and contrite, who know by faith that God has forgiven them of yesterday’s sins through Christ Jesus.
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