Isaiah 43:25

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.” The phrase “for my own sake” arrested my attention this morning. It indicates that God forgives for God’s sake. That is both humbling and reassuring to me.

It humbles me cuz it reminds me that I am not at the center of God’s heart; God is. Even the incredible grace of blotting out my sins He does for His own good first and mine second.

It is reassuring cuz it grounds my hope in God’s worth and not my own. “What if God gets tired of forgiving me?” is a question I never need to ask, since He never tires of pursuing His own glory. God opposes unforgiven sin in me with the same zeal that He opposes any other enemy to His glory. He will have me entirely clean, by His own blood, for His own glory.