For I will be merciful to their wrongdoing, and I will never again remember their sins. (Hebrews 8:12)
It is I who sweep away your transgressions for My own sake and remember your sins no more. (Isaiah 43:25)
Last Wednesday, my daily devotional reading was near the end of the
book of Judges, where Samson met his fateful end after a life of
disordered love and disobedience. As I closed my Bible that morning, I
recalled how the sad epitaph on Samson’s life in Judges (“he killed more
in his death than he did in his life”) is not repeated in the New
Testament. The author of Hebrews lists Samson as a man of faith.
Period. How kind of the Lord, I thought, to put Samson’s flawed legacy in the background and simply list him as a hero, one who “gained strength after being weak.”
Later that day, Johnny Hunt spoke at LifeWay’s chapel and delivered a
truth-filled message about how God’s grace overcomes past regrets. He
brought up God’s promise to “forget” our sins, to never bring up our
past again, and he pointed to the New Testament’s discussion of Old
Testament heroes as proof.
Think about it. No matter how flawed our heroes are shown to be in
the Old Testament, they are presented at their best in the New. Continue at Trevin Wax
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