[h=2]Friday, August 21 [/h] You, O Jehovah, are good and ready to forgive. —Ps. 86:5. How do we know that Jehovah’s forgiveness is permanent? Consider Jeremiah’s prophecy concerning the new covenant, made with anointed Christians, which makes true forgiveness possible for those who exercise faith in the ransom. Jehovah says: “I shall forgive their error, and their sin I shall remember no more.†(Jer. 31:34) So Jehovah assures us that once he forgives, he will never in the future act against us because of those sins. He does not rehash our sins in order to accuse us or punish us again and again. Rather, Jehovah forgives those sins and puts them behind him—permanently. (Rom. 4:7, 8) We can imitate Jehovah’s forgiveness by choosing to be forgiving toward one another whenever there is a basis for doing so.(Luke 17:3, 4) And when we forgive others, we too can forget by putting the matter behind us and not bringing it up again in the future. w13 6/15 3:11, 13, 15