There is no record of your sins

And their sins and their lawbreaking, I will remember no more. Hebrews 10:17

I once heard a story about a man who died of a heart attack and went to heaven. In heaven, there was this huge screen showing all the sins over his lifetime. Can you imagine how embarrassing this would be?  

But you don’t have to worry about that because that will never happen to you in heaven. Your sins of the past and even the present are not being recorded. And that’s because all of the sins in your life in the past and present has already been punished in the body of Jesus. God says in regard to you that “your sins and lawless deeds, I will by no means ever remember”. (Isaiah 43:25) (Jeremiah 31:34)

You should also know that this is true even for the Old Testament heroes of faith such as Abraham, Moses and David. If you read Hebrews 11, which was written after the cross of Jesus, you will see that there is no record of their sins or failures. Yet, their life stories reveal to us that they were far from perfect.  

Abraham lied twice about his wife Sarah. He told Pharaoh, and later, King Abimelech, that she was his sister to protect his own life. Moses killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew and hid the body in the sand. David committed adultery with Bathsheba and later fixed it to where her husband would be killed in battle. But their sins were not recorded in Hebrews 11, only their works done in faith.  

God is showing you and I that He does not record our sins or failures today. Instead, he records your faith confessions and deeds done in response to what His Son has done for you. Every time you sin, every time you waver in your faith, God does not record it. Now, that should not make you want to sin more. It should cause you to love God more due to His abundance of mercy and grace.  

So, I want to encourage you to not be conscious of your failures. If God Himself does not remember them, why should we? Be conscious instead of your right standing that you have with God your Father because of Jesus’ work on your behalf (2 Corinthians 5:21), and you will reign and win big in this life. (Romans 5:17). Praise God that when He looks at us, He see’s Jesus. Hallelujah.