Yesterday
for a moment I thought about my mother.
I don’t know why, but I was just thinking about her and about various
things over the years, especially the last several of her life which were hard
for her. And I thought about things I
did, decisions I made regarding her care and her life and really all sorts of
other decisions and actions over the years.
Some of them I debated at the time.
Some of them perhaps should have been handled otherwise.
And
as I was thinking about things she might not have liked, I said I hope she
forgives me.
Almost
immediately a smile broke out on my face.
Well, how ridiculous, I thought!
Of course she forgives me! How
silly! My mother? Of course she forgives me. There is no question of that. Of course she would and does.
It
was not even an issue. I know deep
inside how much my mother loved me. And
I know that of course she would forgive me for anything.
Aha! Now then the next thought. If I can have such absolute certainly about
my mother’s forgiveness that it is not even a question, what about God? What
about his forgiveness?
It
is the same absolute. It is there and real and absolute. No question.
Jesus paid the price for that.
Realize it. Take it. Think about someone who truly loved you, like
maybe your mother or father or some other family member or friend, and think
about how of course they would forgive you for anything. Then magnify that forgiveness an infinity of
times to get to God’s level of forgiveness of you.
Forgiven. That’s what you are. You as a believer in the Lord. Forgiven.
Copyright © 2018 by John Newlin
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