How many mistakes will I make in this life of mine? It never seems to cease.
Have you ever messed up in your life?
When we make mistakes like this, I can't help feeling, "I wonder what God will think of me?" Will He forgive me, or will He just shake His head and close the door?
You know what? No matter what we have done or how many times we have done the same old sin over and over again, God is so keen to forgive us.
Why does God want to forgive us? That is such a good question and one that I have contemplated a lot over the years. I know when someone messes up with me, I tend not to forgive and have dealings with someone else, and leave that person alone.
Praise the Lord, He is not like that to me, and if you come to Him right now, He will not be like that with you either. I always seem to "mess up" in life; it seems to be the thing I do, no matter how much I try not to.
We all make mistakes, even when we become a Christian and give our lives to Jesus, we still seem to make mistakes. I guess that's because sin came into the world all those years ago, and our world is sin-based, unfortunately, and that's how it is going to be until Jesus comes back again and finally takes us home to be with Him.
Because of what Jesus did by taking sin and killing it on the cross all those years ago, He became, if you like, a reconciliation between God and us mere humans. In other words, Jesus took it upon himself to 'make amends' for us.
In 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21, it says, "God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." In other words, if we decide to ask Jesus to come into our lives, He frees us from sin and gives us brand new identities. Pretty cool, eh!
You know, Jesus became who we are, which is amazing, so that we might become who He is, which is totally and truly extraordinary!
We were born into sin, unfortunately, and it can take over our lives all the time, and if it wasn't for what Jesus did on that cross all those years ago and killed our sin on that day, we would be destined to spend eternity in hell because God can't look at sin.
Jesus took our sins, and He gave us his true holiness and righteousness, and all we have to do is accept His perfect gift for us, no matter what we have done in our past lives. Jesus set us apart from the world of sin. YES! We still sin, but because we have accepted what He did for us, He sees us as clean and holy.
He took our sins and nailed them to the cross, and all we have to do is accept His perfect gift for us and live our lives with Him being number one, even though we live in this sin-filled world
Jesus, in his wisdom, became what we were and took our sins so that we can become who He is. I am now free, and if you like to put it this way, I am sanctified and glorified, and one day I will be with him. That is truly something you should be really thinking about.
This so reminds me of the story Jesus told about 'The Prodigal Son'. It's a story or parable that Jesus told to get a point across. Here is this wayward son living in a pretty good world, but wanting his inheritance now rather than waiting for his dad to die. So he fronts his dad and wants his inheritance now. Poor old Dad reluctantly gives in and grants him his inheritance.
The kid thinks it's great, he leaves home and lives it up with a great lifestyle. He ends up losing all the dollars, feeding pigs, and sharing their meals. He realises what a mistake he has made and comes back to his dad and the family.
His old dad sees him coming home and runs out to meet him, hugs him, and gives him back his rightful place in the family.
Why did Jesus tell this story? Because when we turn to God after we have sinned or when we decide to accept Jesus into our lives, God, in a way, runs to us like that father did and accepts us as his child. He certainly doesn't smack us across the ears and turn us permanently away from Him.
Unfortunately, we continue to sin, but the best part is that once we give our lives to him, he never rejects or is mercilessly annoyed at us, and he never ever runs out of forgiveness. Which to me is totally and truly amazing, lovely, breathtaking, and astounding.
So....when, like me, you mess up, don't run away from God or truly think you are totally useless, run to Him and not away from Him.
God never ever remembers our biggest or smallest mistakes and sins, which to me is amazing and pure beautiful, and He certainly never brands us for eternity with some sin we have done or unfortunately continue to do. We are forgiven, exonerated, excused, pardoned, and acquitted of all our sins regardless of what they were when we come to Him and ask His amazing forgiveness.
From what I've certainly learned over the years is to open up and talk to God about my sins.
How about you? Certainly ask his forgiveness and then ask him to help you. Your past and ever-present mistakes will be forgiven; truly forgiven and not remembered. It's truly amazing just how much God loves us and how ready He is to forgive you and me.
God's richest to you and yours, and hope to see you next time.
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