Do you remember all the details of the solid past? God doesn't - 1 Kings 14-17

Really, is that how your remember it?   God, through His prophet, Ahijah, has a message for Jeroboam.  God wants King Jeroboam to know that He is not pleased with the kings leadership.   So, in 1 Kings 14:8 God tells Jeroboam's wife to go back and tell her husband that Jeroboam has failed as the king and didn't act in a good way ... they say DAVID did.    Here is where we, as believers or unbelievers, may have an issue.   God tells Jeroboam that, unlike David, he did not keep the commandments and follow God with his whole heart, again, like David.   But, if you were Jeroboam, what  would you be thinking?   David committed adultery (a commandment) and had the husband of the women he slept with murdered (a commandment).   How can God, in righteousness, use David as an example when he had this in his background?   You and I don't remember David's life being all that spotless.  Jeroboam, you, me and many, many others would remember the adultery and the coverup murder.   Yet, God does not mention it.   Why?  Perhaps it is because God forgot about it?   Let's read David's prayer in Psalm 51 and see what he asked God about those dreadful events:

Psalms 51:7-10: Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice. Hide Your face from my sin. And blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do you see what God did?   God answered David's prayer.  He made David clean and then "blotted out" is iniquities.   When God sees you and me, once we ask for forgiveness, He sees us as pure and clean.  Our sins are blotted out.  Have you ever wondered how God can cal someone like Job, "perfect?"  It is because in God's eyes, he was.  God made him perfect through faith in a savior and that was it.  In God's eyes we are perfect.   Jeroboam was an nonrepentive leader.   David repented and was a forgiven leader.   And, when God forgives you He can use you as an example to others as a righteous man.   Rejoice in your forgiveness.   God only sees you that way and only talks about you to others in that way.  We might remember but God doesn't.