By E.T. Williams
We crave that profound sigh of relief – the experience of being forgiven. Whether receiving grace from someone we’ve wounded, offering release to someone who hurt us, or encountering the ultimate cleansing – God washing away our trespasses and sins – forgiveness is a divine glitch of pure grace in our broken humanity. It’s recalibration at the deepest level.
And the most astonishing aspect? God’s forgiveness includes divine amnesia.
Micah 7:19 declares: “He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.”
This isn’t a shallow pool. It’s the profound, unfathomable deep. A deliberate act of permanent disposal.
Now, picture the shore of that sea. It’s not a place for lingering. You’d see signs – stark, final, unequivocal:
• “NO FISHING.”
• “NO SWIMMING.”
These aren’t suggestions; they are eternal decrees. Whatever God has cast into that sea is gone. He has turned His back on it. Vanished. Forgotten. Forever. Fishing tries to dredge it back up. Swimming means lingering in its polluted waters, revisiting the scene of the crime, immersing ourselves in the guilt of what was discarded.
This is the reality for everyone washed in the crimson tide of Christ’s sacrifice. His shed blood is the Sea of Forgetfulness. Our confessed sins, covered by His sacrifice, are hurled into its depths by God Himself. He chooses not to remember them. Ever. (Hebrews 8:12, 10:17)
This is why grasping the POWER of the Blood is non-negotiable. It’s not symbolism; it’s the actual, dynamic force that enacted your redemption and established this sea. This is why communion matters profoundly. It’s not a wistful memorial; it’s a tangible connection by faith to Christ’s finished work.
When you partake of the bread (His body) and the cup (His blood) in faith, you spiritually ingest His perfect, sinless life. His righteousness becomes your sustenance. The sins you did commit? Removed. Cast into the Sea! And the sins you will battle? Already cancelled by faith in His ongoing sufficiency. The Father sees only Christ. You stand in the fullness of His completed work – cleansed, justified, covered in perfect righteousness.
Here is the enemy’s cruel deception: He tempts us back to that forbidden shore.
He whispers lies, points accusing fingers, dredges up old footage. He persuades us:
• To fish: To cast our line back into those depths, trying to haul up sins God has eternally discarded. “Remember this?” he hisses. “What about that?”
• To swim: To wade into the polluted waters of past guilt and failure, immersing ourselves in shame, replaying the scenes, letting the currents of condemnation pull us under.
When we take the bait – whether fishing or swimming – we do devastating things:
1. We Declare His Death Insufficient: We scream, “Jesus, your sacrifice wasn’t strong enough, wasn’t good enough, to cover all of this. I need to revisit it, handle it myself.” What an insult to the cross!
2. We Reject Our New Identity: We insist on carrying chains He shattered. We choose the shroud of the old self instead of the radiant robe of righteousness He placed upon us. We linger at the grave of our sins instead of walking in resurrection power.
Stop fishing, beloved! Stop swimming! The signs are clear: “NO FISHING. NO SWIMMING.”
Do not let the accuser shackle you to memories God Himself has chosen to forget. Reject his attempts to throw past transgressions in your face or lure you back into the murky waters of guilt. You are not a convict. You were bought with a boundless price.
You are MORE than a conqueror through Him who loved you. (Romans 8:37)
You are a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
You are forgiven, cleansed, and eternally hidden in Christ. (Colossians 3:3)
Leave the shoreline completely. Flee the temptation to fish or swim in the polluted past. Fix your eyes on the risen, victorious Christ whose Blood utterly demolished your guilt and buried your sins at the bottom of a sea God refuses to see.
The Sea of Forgetfulness stands between you and your past. Don’t fish. Don’t swim. Turn your back on it and walk confidently into His glorious future, breathing the free air of radical redemption.
The Grace Glitch 