For Him

I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.  (Isaiah 43:25 ESV)

For Him

I do not usually clearly understand why God seems so eager to forgive me.  I know what I have done, I know what I do, and I know what I will do.  I do not have that much positive effect on His Kingdom that He would be expected to kill Jesus on MY behalf.

But He did.  And for you, too.

But my lack of understanding can be cleared up by this verse.  God tells us that He did not forgive us for OUR sake. If He HAD done it for our sake, the result might be some reasonable insecurity.  We might become even LESS valuable to God as time goes on.  We might discover MORE unworthiness in ourselves.

But God forgives us for HIS sake.

He forgives us because HE enjoys forgiving.  He forgives us because HE knows what is absolutely the best, beyond our eyesight and comprehension.  He forgives us because it is what HE wants to do for us.

And so His forgiveness is reliable, dependable, and amazingly secure.

We moderns might not like this concept.  We want to be THE reason for anything and everything.

But when it comes to forgiveness (and so much more…) God does it for HIS sake.

So rejoice.  Because if our forgiveness was merely for US, we could not rest assured.