If you’ve lived long enough, you’ve had somebody not come through on a promise they’ve made you. It’s inevitable – people are not perfect! There is exactly one person you can depend on to always be faithful and keep His promises – GOD! God is perfectly faithful to you, because He has perfect character.

Lamentations 3:21-25

21 This I recall to my mind,

Therefore I have hope.

22 The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,

For His compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;

Great is Your faithfulness.

24 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul,

"Therefore I have hope in Him."

25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,

To the person who seeks Him.

Is there anything God can’t do? Yes! He can’t lie, and He can’t be unfaithful. He will always be faithful to you, whether you are faithful to Him or not.

2 Timothy 2:13

13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

One of the areas we frequently underestimate the faithfulness of God is in forgiveness for our sins. Look what the Word of God says:

1 John 1:9

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins (the sins we name) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (The sins we forget or don’t know about!)

Since God is perfectly faithful, this verse means that when we name our sins (the Greek word translated confess is HOMOLOGEO, meaning to name, cite, or agree with), no matter what they are or how bad we may think they are, God absolutely, perfectly, and permanently forgives them. There’s no penance, emotion, or sorrow required!

We often times ascribe our human limitations to the principle of God’s forgiveness. It’s so easy for us to remember things that people have done against us, but since God is perfectly faithful, He completely forgets the sin as soon as we name it to Him!

Psalms 103:12

12 As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Since all of our sins have been imputed to Jesus Christ on the Cross, God is totally satisfied with the payment, and can completely and totally forgive us. That’s why the verse above says that He is righteous; He can overlook our sins without accepting them.

It’s up to us to realize that no matter how we feel about our sin, when we name it to God, He immediately and completely forgives us. Our responsibility is to put it behind us:

Philippians 3:13

13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

Accept the forgiveness of God from the faithfulness of God. If God has forgiven and forgotten your sins, why can’t you?