068: But because of His forgiveness, we are alive, shameless, and loved.
I have not posted anything on here lately. I guess, with my internship at cflwesley.org and all the wedding stuff, I find my thoughts centralized and with a mechanical type of processing. I think about the things I need to think about, and, honestly, I haven’t taken the time I should with the Lord. Well, lately, I have, maybe that’s why I am writing. Anyway, enough with the why I am writing or why I am not writing, let’s get down to business:
I have really been able to encounter the forgiveness of God lately. And I know your thinking, “He must be really screwing up.” Because we all know that when we screw up big, God forgives big. Thus, it appears that we are experiencing his amazing forgiveness. On the contrary, I feel like I haven’ been screwing up. In fact, it is during my quiet times that I have been so overcome by the forgiving love of God. How He is looking for us to seek forgiveness. Isaiah 1:18 says this, after telling the people of Israel their need to purify themselves and do right, “‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool’” (NIV). He says, “Come now, let us reason together.” He wants to seek sanctification. We were all once crimson and scarlet, bloodied, half-alive people. But because of His forgiveness, we are alive, shameless, and loved. I am so thankful for His forgiving love. It has brought me so far, and it will take me to great places. I, now, just wonder where He leads.
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