JEDIDIAH means loved by the Lord. Imagine the amount of forgiveness David has received with his message from God! He is completely forgiven. Solomon, David and Bathsheba's second son, is loved by God.

 There is no commandment to David to remember forever his own sin or even to never see Bathsheba again. Rather all is forgiven from God's perspective. David can move forward in his life, in God's love, and in a renewed oneness with God.

 We have difficulty imagining such forgiveness because our earthly natures tell us to “forgive but not forget.“ We dwell on our sins or the slights of others and waste too much time reacting to something God has forgotten. Forgiving completely and forgetting is God's way, and we must make it ours.