He Forgives All Our Sins

There’s a weight of guilt that comes upon our hearts when we realize we have hurt or offended someone who loves us. It’s nigh impossible to look into the eyes of one whose trust you have betrayed.

We may try to defend ourselves if they realize it first and come to us with accusations; if they even hit us physically it doesn’t hurt so much because we take it as requital. It’s like we have paid a debt, and so less guilt is left on our shoulders. But when you offend a person over and over and they never make an attempt at vengeance, when it’s obvious to you that they know what you have been doing and still they don’t push you away, it’s difficult to live with the guilt of hurting such people.

God loves us, and wants to be in an eternal relationship with us. But His way of life seems such a high standard for us that we disappoint Him, over and over.

He has provided all that we need to live like Him, and is right there all the time waiting patiently for us to ask for His help, but we don’t. We try to handle challenges ourselves and fail miserably.

Yet instead of learning our lessons, we rinse ourselves and repeat, never making real progress but content with our backward concept of living.

So the devil takes advantage of our ignorant ideals and keeps us bound in the fetters of guilt, chained to the pillars of unforgiveness.

God assures us first, that as His children we should never sin¹.  It’s not part of our makeup; it was never part of our protein sequence. But if we do fall into sin, because of His own faithfulness and righteousness He will always forgive us as long as we admit our errors and ask for forgiveness². There’s no better deal than that.

He won’t just stop at forgiveness; He’ll take away the punishment that would have come as a consequence of our unfaithfulness.

Yet the devil tells us it’s too good to be true and makes us wallow in unforgiveness, waiting till we have served time in the prison of guilt.

My dear, Jesus paid that price long ago³. And while His offer doesn’t in any way reduce the weight of sin itself, His love carries it from off our shoulders and lets us live in the presence of the goodness of God, far away from the consequences of our mistakes and the shadows of our pasts.

God is good; He forgives all our sins!⁴

¹ 1Jn 3:9

² 1Jn 1:9

³ Rom 5:8

⁴ Ps 103:3