“Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:18-19). Enjoy these words: “pardoning,” “delights in mercy,” “have compassion.” Nothing grudging here!
In his book, The Ladder of Life, A. Rowland writes: “I have a pile of bills at home, the accumulation of years. Together those accounts would make up such a large amount that, if it were called for, I should be ruined. But I can look on them without a shade of anxiety, because every one of them is receipted. No creditor has any claim, and if I were sued in court, I should only have to produce the receipts to be free from condemnation. Thus our moral debts, greater than these, are discharged, and are as if they were not; so that to each penitent believer the Lord says, ‘Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more.’”