What God cannot do"Our God is an awesome God … "so goes a favorite song of Christians. As we think about how awesome God is we may contemplate over God’s unlimited abilities. God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, all-present, all-wise and all-beyond our words to describe or our imagination. It is staggering to think how God could create out of nothing the whole vast cosmos and set each planet, star and moon in every galaxy in motion. To know God keeps tract of all the atoms spinning in the universe boggles our finite minds. If that is not enough, we struggle to comprehend God’s ability to know every human thought from before the foundations of all creation were laid out. How awesome it is of God to know each of us intimately in our most hidden secrets.Yet, with all these powers and abilities of God, is there anything God cannot do? If so, what would it be? Strange as it is, there are some things God cannot do. Let me offer two, namely, first, God cannot sin and, second, God cannot remember forgiven sins.God cannot sin. Our awesome God is so holy that He cannot tolerate sin, even in its smallest measures. When Jesus took upon himself our sins and the sins of all people from every time and place, his heavenly Father was so repulsed that He turned away from Jesus. It was a pain so great that Christ cried out "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Think how wonderful it is that God cannot sin. If our Creator were some kind of evil tyrant who enjoyed creating us humans to be toys for torture, how hopeless and despairing our lot would be. How good it is for us that our Creator cannot sin, but instead would take upon himself all our sins in God’s Son, Jesus Christ. With our sins he would die on a cross so our sins would be forgiven. God cannot remember our sins forgiven by Jesus’ death. The devil, the world, our sinful conscience may continue to haunt us for the past regrets and constantly accuse and remind us of those transgressions. How good it is that God forgives and forgets all our sins when they are blotted out by Jesus’ death on the cross. Our God is an awesome God, and what may be most awesome to us about this loving God of ours is not found in what God can do. It may be in what God cannot do.