During our life’s time, we can never eradicate the record of old memories of mistakes, sins and disgraceful acts, hatred and grudges in the past that we did to people or vice versa. It’s our human nature that we always remember those bad things people did to us and could not forgive them. But there’s good news, God does offer each of us a lean start. Only, He goes far deeper than merely deleting our mistakes or bad behavior. God provides redemption, a deep healing that transforms us and makes us new. Even though Israel rebelled and disobeyed, God reached out to them with lavish mercy. He “swept away their offenses like a cloud, their sins like the morning mist” (Isaiah 44:22). He gathered all their shame and failures and washed them away with His wide, sweeping grace.
God will do the same with our sin and huge mistakes. There’s no mistake He can’t mend, no wound He cannot heal. God’s mercy heals and redeems the most painful places in our soul—even the ones we’ve hidden for so very long. His mercy sweeps away all our guilt, washes away every regret.