A few months ago as I listened to a Gospel radio station a song came on with a beautiful melody, but the lyrics contained an obvious contradiction about God. The line that caught my attention went: “He forgives and forgets…” God certainly forgives, but how can an omniscient God forget? If He knows all, then what could slip His mind? God does not live in the past or future, but in the eternal present. Nowhere in the Bible does it ever say, God forgot, or forgets, or cannot remember. The fantastic thing about God’s forgiveness is that even though He knows every wrong we’ve ever committed, every lie we’ve ever told, everything we’ve stolen, and every dishonest thing we’ve ever done, He still forgives us when we confess and admit our wrongdoing. Once He forgives our sin, He never brings it up or punishes us for it later—no double jeopardy with God. The mythical “Sea of Forgetfulness” does not exist. God never says He’ll forget, but God does promise never to hold it against us again, even though He knows all about what we’ve done in the past. It takes a lot more love to forgive someone for a mistake that still burns in your mind, than it does to forgive them for something you can’t recall. But God’s heart is just that big and His love is just that deep, and He’ll do it every time. To forget suggests a faulty memory, but choosing not to remember is a deliberate act of love.