Swept Away

Swept Away

Bible: Isaiah 44:21-23

I have swept away your offences like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist (V.22).

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When he invented the pencil eraser, Edward Nairne was reaching instead for a piece of bread. Crusts of bread were used then, in 1770, to rub out marks on paper. Picking up a piece of rubber by mistake, Nairne found it erased his mistake, leaving rubber ‘crumbs’ which were easily swept away.

With us, too, the worst errors of our lives can be swept away. It’s Jesus—the Bread of Life—who cleans them with His own life, promising never to remember our sins. “I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake,” says Isaiah 43:25, “and remembers your sins no more.”

This can seem too good to be true. It’s hard to believe the stuff we’ve messed up can be swept away by God “like the morning mist” (ISAIAH 44:22). Does God forget them so easily? Especially the God who knows everything?!

That’s exactly what God does when we accept Jesus as our Saviour and Lord. Choosing to forgive our sins and to “[remember] them no more,” our heavenly Father frees us to move forward. No longer dragged down by past wrongs, we’re free of the guilt and cleaned up to live for Him, now and forever.

Yes, some consequences may remain. But God sweeps sin itself away, inviting us to return to Him for our clean new life. There’s no better way to be swept away.

WHEN GOD FORGETS OUR SINS, HE DOESN’T JUST ‘FORGET’; HE CHOOSES TO NEVER REMEMBER THEM.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries