"I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins." Isaiah 43:25 NAS

There is only one Savior and that is the LORD God who is just and the justifier. Isaiah 43:11 says, "I, even I, am the LORD; And there is no savior besides Me." We see here that there is only one reason why the Lord would choose to forgive our sins and wipe or blot them out. That is for His own sake because He is just and we deserve total judgment while in the same moment receiving complete mercy and forgiveness.

Forgiveness is such a sweet thing isn't it? The difference between then and now is what's in the middle of them and us. That is the cross of Christ. They were given total forgiveness for their wayward rebellious hearts for that moment and time. We have been given forgiveness for all time and eternity. It was for His sake and His good pleasure that we be given forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:19-20 says, "For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross..." He made peace by completely blotting out our sins. The word 'wipes' in Hebrew is machah (maw-khaw') and means to stroke or rub; by implication, to erase; also to smooth (as if with oil), i.e. grease or make fat; also to touch, i.e. reach to.

The KJV usage is to abolish, blot out, destroy, full of marrow, put out, reach unto, X utterly, wipe (away, out) (1). Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary says, "Blotteth out" is an image from an account-book, in which, when a debt is paid, the charge is cancelled or blotted out (2)." Think of the feeling you get when you pay off a debt owed to someone or an institution that has hanged over your head for maybe years. What an awesome feeling when they say, “Paid in Full”

We serve a just God, who has the right to judge and condemn sin. Just in reading this verse do you feel that sense of freedom from the debt of sin we owed which had the cost of death and eternal separation? Have you ever taken out a car loan? There is always the line that says, "The cost to borrow this money is: ______$" One thing I know is how that freedom feels. You see after paying on a car loan for five and a half years I was finally able to pay it off just recently.

Of course the freedom didn't last long because seven days after I paid that car off it was totaled in an accident. That of course falls under the category of L.I.F.E. Yet with Christ we have had our debt totally “Paid in Full.” God in His own pleasure and for His own sake reconciled us to Himself and remembers our sins no more. They are forever erased from His book.

That is why 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” This means to literally clean us from our dirty sins. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ today that we have been washed white as snow from the most grotesque of sins. He has blotted them all out and erased them from His accounting book.

Cleansed White by Red,
Adam

Notes:
[1] Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary (OT:4229). Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.
[2] Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft