For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. (Hebrews 8:12 ESV)
Forget
I have had bad times that I have not forgotten. I have been hurt in ways that I have not forgotten. I have hurt others in ways that I have not forgotten. I have not forgotten a lot of things that I should have.
And sometimes I expect God to be the same way.
For how can the omniscient God not remember my sins?
How can the God not bound by time forget the times in my life when I have rebelled?
Even worse, the things that God would be expected to remember make me unfaithful, a promise breaker, and a rebel. I would expect God to remember, and to punish.
But if God just flippantly forgets, what about His omniscience? If God chooses to block His memory, He would be a deceiver and unjust.
But the way that God does not remember my sins is that He does remember that He assigns them to Jesus. The Almighty Judge’s forgetfulness is actually a redirection of my rebellion onto the cross of Christ.
God does not remember me in that way, because He remembers Jesus instead.
We can not bear God’s remembering of our sin, but Jesus can.