“Because You Would Forget Your Misery . . . .”

“Because You Would Forget Your Misery . . . .”

This agrees precisely with Acts 3:26 which can justly be said to be one of the most central words in the gospel of Christ. “You would forget” is surely one of the most glorious blessings that with divine certainty comes over every soul and into every soul, who without reservation and without exception turns completely away from all sin and malice.

“If”—“then,” (verses 13 and 15) blessings will flow into your heart; and one of the many blessings in particular is that you will forget your misery, your tribulations and sufferings, and above everything else you will forget all the evil that this or that person has said and done throughout the years. This is in complete harmony with what is written in 1 Corinthians 13. Love, which God pours out into our hearts, does not remember evil. This results in it not being stored in a person’s memory. On the contrary! You will forget it forever! As God Himself does, so you will cast it into the sea of forgetfulness. What a wonderful, deep, and expansive sea that is! It virtually drowns there. We can also say that it drowns in the blessings that fill our hearts. Hallelujah!

Oh, you heavenly, glorious blessing of forgetfulness!!! Something so practical! You remember the good and linger by it. You forget the evil. This is truly a wise way of furthering our inward, heavenly happiness.

How indescribably good God is to bless us in this manner. Glory to the Father! With this blessed intention, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this evil world where people usually are in such anguish because of all their sin and wickedness, and not the least because they dwell on all the bad things that have been said to them and about them and have been done to them throughout all the years; this must rightfully be called Satan’s torment.

Therefore, you who read or hear this glorious message, the gospel, purify your heart! Get rid of the evil! Out with it! Throw it into the sea of forgetfulness; let it drown forever so that mighty rivers of blessings can reach you, fill you, and flow further to other people through you. Let it happen!