Thoughts On Sin/ Grace

I was sitting in community group tonight and the subject of God forgetting our sins, even the ones we commit time and time again came up. For whatever reason, we always want to keep record of our sins. I guess that it is Satan trying to work against us feeling the freedom of God’s grace. I have heard illustration after illustration explaining what this looks like. Marker boards, the recycle bin on a computer etc. Tonight, an analogy popped into my head as I reflected on the grace of God. A compost pile…we let our sins pile up like a compost pile, lying, lust, gossip. If we start a compost pile in our yard we can look out of the window and see all of the decomposable garbage that has passed from the fridge to the yard. When we are tempted to sin there is a spiritual battle going on and the devil wants us to see our sins like we see a compost pile, he wants us to remember past situations when we gave into our flesh and human nature. When we ask for forgiveness, God sees our compost pile as fertilizer, it is no longer a pile of garbage, it is a fresh start, ready to produce a plush garden. A fresh start, a clean slate. God sees a blameless, forgiven life, growing, and producing fruit. God is love, and love keeps no record of wrong (1 Corinthians 13:4). So our sins are cast as far as the east is from the west, shoveled into the earth, forgotten, and our slates are clean, our crimson stains covered by the blood of the lamb and made white as snow. (Psalm 51)(Romans 4) Once washed in the blood, we can not be called dirty. (Acts 10:15)