Forgiveness

Isn’t it crazy how forgiving God is?

How can we forgive someone so close to us for doing something so unthinkable? So dirty? So shameful? I find it difficult to forgive people, even those close to me, for sinning. Yet I do the exact same. God sees it all as sin. He forgives us without a second thought. He looks at us and only sees perfect, pure, spotless blood. If our perfect God looks at us in our darkest moments and says “I forgive you” why do we so often look at the people around us and say “I don’t think I could ever forgive you.” Christians REPRESENT who Jesus is. We are called to reflect Him. Judging people’s sins and leaving them in their darkest moments is not what Jesus asks of us. He came to show us how BIG God’s love it. Big enough to send someone he loves in place of billions who chose to disobey Him everyday.

Doesn’t that just make you want to drop to your knees? Doesn’t it confuse you? I cannot begin to understand love like that. Love that looks past all the bad, dirty, and disobedience and sees us as His. He doesn’t hesitate to forgive. He knows our hearts. Something he has also constantly been reminding me of. I so badly want to put on a perfect show. I want people to see me as someone who never has doubts and who never fails. Jesus says, “I know your heart beloved. Stop worrying and stressing about what those around you are thinking. I know you are mine. I can see your submissive heart.”

Jesus is forgiveness. Literally. Old Testament God would not have had it. He couldn’t even be near His people when they sinned. Then Jesus came. And he toke it all away on the cross. We are forever forgiven, loved, and wanted by our Creator. As a believer, I’m choosing to rest in the fact that it is finished. I don’t have to earn my forgiveness, I just have to ask for it.