Psalm 51:3 NKJV
For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
Many times I've felt like David - the looming, accusing, condemning, long list of my sins, faults and failings "ever before me"!
What a dampener, spreading a dark cloud over my soul.
Searching the biblical area of forgiveness - there is the difficult section of how to forgive "me"!
Here's a good question - what am I harbouring against myself? Am I holding grudges and keeping myself imprisoned by condemnation because of something in the past?
Does that "skeleton in my cupboard" keep rattling its dry bones just when I think I might be free?
Even Paul the Apostle had these feelings:
Romans 7:24 NKJV
O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
He fought back with spiritual facts from God's Word:
1 Timothy 1:15 NKJV
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
I need forgiveness as much as any other person.
If I fail to forgive "me", how can I hope to forgive others?
This is where I must live and park the bus of my life:
Romans 8:1-2 NKJV
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
This is a freeing "Hallelujah" fact of spiritual life in Jesus and from it flows the River of Total Forgiveness.
I remember this old chorus and its sentiments ring ever true:
Feel free to be excited!!
Q: Has God forgiven "me"?
If "yes", then so must I!
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