Turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out.
—Acts 3:19
It blows my mind that God makes us sinners sinless. When he forgives, our sins are gone and forgotten (Heb 10:17).
Peter urged his hearers: “Turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out” (Acts 3:19).
William Barclay explained the allusion: “Ancient writing was upon papyrus, and the ink used had no acid in it. It therefore did not bite into the papyrus as modern ink does; it simply lay upon the top of it. To erase the writing a man might take a wet sponge and simply wipe it away.”
Just so, when God forgives our sins, he wipes the slate clean. “I wipe away your sins . . . I will forget the wrongs you have done” (Isa. 43:25 CEV).
You are never out of God’s sight, never out of God’s mind.
But your confessed sins are out of both his sight and his mind.