Today's promise: God is always willing
to forgive us
Are you breathing the
sweet air of forgiveness?
Though our hearts are
filled with sins, you forgive them all.
Psalm 65:3 NLT
The sweet air of forgiveness
If you doubt God's
forgiveness, allow the words of Romans 8:32 to strengthen your faith. If God
gave up his only Son for you, so surely he will not hold back his forgiveness!
Since God did not spare
even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ,
also give us everything else?
God's forgiveness is
different than human forgiveness. Isaiah 43:25 declares that when God forgives
sin, he forgets them forever.
"I — yes, I alone —
am the one who blots out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them
again."
Human forgiveness often
comes with hidden strings. We say we forgive, but later, at a crucial time, we
yank the string and pull the offense back into view. Saying "I forgive
you" comes easily, but truly forgiving and forgetting is much more
difficult. Knowing our tendency to store past offenses and hold grudges, we
assume that God does the same.
But the Bible proclaims
that God will never think of our sins again. Does God take sin seriously?
Definitely! Sin is so serious that it deserves the death penalty, eternal
death.
Does God want to
forgive sinners? Certainly! God sent Jesus to take the punishment for sin,
dying on the cross in our place. All who repent and trust in Christ can be
forgiven.
Can we trust God to
forgive us? Of course! Release that load of guilt. Stand tall and breathe the
sweet air of forgiveness.
From Living Water for Those Who Thirst Tyndale
House Publishers (2000), pp 37-8
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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