Photo Credit: Timothy K Hamilton (Flickr)Many times the enemy comes to play the old tapes in my head. They sound a little like this, "You're speaking about Jesus?!? What makes you think YOU can make a difference? Don't you remember the time when you __________? And how could you forget what happened when __________." Satan has a field day when I dwell on those thoughts. I begin to doubt whether I can really be used by Him.
And then the Holy Spirit gently whispers into my ear, "Indy, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" The bible does not say that only a select few are forgiven. No, it is very clear that anyone that is in Christ is a new creation. I am forgiven. The price has been paid for my sins. ALL of them.
I am grateful that God isn't the angry God I used to believe He was. He isn't sitting up in heaven waiting for me to mess up. He is a loving father that simply desires that I know and love Him above all things.
I think this is they key to self-forgiveness.
3 comments:
So true. Sometimes it is so difficult for us to forgive ourselves although God has already forgiven us. When I compare myself with God and his greatness I realize that if in His perfectness and holiness he can forgive me and not hold all my mistakes against me and love me anyway -then why can't I (such a flawed being) forgive myself?
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