Have You Forgiven Yourself?

Categories Moment with God, Recent Articles & Sermons | Posted on April 30, 2012

TODAY’S READING: PSALM 102-104

What a wonderful picture of forgiveness! When we seek God and ask Him to remove our sin, He does so. He will remember it never again! This should fill our life with hope and joy. However, there are many Christians who understand God has forgiven them, but they have yet to forgive themselves. When God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves. Beating up oneself must certainly cease. Our debt has been cancelled. We must not continue to live in fear. What God promises to do, He will do. We need to move forward in humble faith, realizing our dependence upon God. We must allow enthusiasm and joy to fill our life. Those around us need to see how we have been spiritually blessed. When the Christian lives with assurance, his entire outlook on life and willingness to share the gospel with others radically changes for the better. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon, Isaiah 55.7.

Author: Matthew Allen

Website: www.allenbibleresources.com

Count your spiritual blessings.

He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.”Psalms 103.9–14 ESV