Forgiven
Exodus 34:6-7 says "And God passed before him and proclaimed, "the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation." " NKJV
In the same verse, we see God's mercy and His take on sin. Seems pretty confusing to me..
He remembers my sins no more. Seriously? like..for real?
I don't doubt my salvation, just that the feeling of self-disappointment and self-directed anger creeps up every time I'm mindful of what a wretched man I am.
Today I came across this short article by Max Lucado which I find to be really encouraging in regards to the issue mentioned above. Let me share!
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Claim God's Forgiveness
By Max Lucado
"For as many of you were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians 3:27 RSV
You read right. We have "put on" Christ. When God looks at us he doesn't see us; he sees Christ. We "wear" Him. We are hidden in Him; we are covered by Him. As the song says, "Dressed in righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne."
Presumptuous, you say? Sacrilegious? It would be if it were my idea. But it isn't; it's His. We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it. And we're sacrilegious not when we claim His forgiveness, but when we allow the haunting sins of yesterday to convince us that God forgives but He doesn't forget.
Do yourself a favor. Remember..He forgot.
