The 28 Day Forgiveness Challenge — Day 12
Debt is a big problem in America. I know. It has plagued me most of my adult life.
For many, the struggle gets overwhelming. No matter what they do, the debt never goes away. Every month, the mountain of bills reminds them of the financial mess they are in.
As to financial debt, there is a way out. There is something you can and should do. Cut up your credit cards. Develop a budget. Slash your lifestyle. Use every dime you can squeeze out of your budget to pay off what you owe. Commit to the plan, and in time the debt is gone. Financial freedom is yours.
It’s a totally different story when it comes to sin. There is nothing you can do to get out from under this heavy burden. Hard work, discipline and tough decisions will not remove this debt. There is not enough money in the world or enough good deeds to pay it off. Our efforts don’t even put a dent in what we owe. The sins and the guilt and the shame keep piling up.
Our only hope of release is the mercy of God. That mercy is delivered to us through forgiveness.
Forgiveness Challenge #12 – Truthfully, answer this question. When you say that your sins have been forgiven, what does that mean to you? Begin this challenge by looking at this beautiful picture of the transfer of our sins to Jesus Christ.
“God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5;21).
Bob and Crew,
I have really been enjoying this series of 28 days.
Thanks so much, bless y’all
Jim
Hey Bob,It looks like both sin and righteousness are qualities and not numbers or quantities.
Truthfully, answer this question. When you say that your sins have been forgiven, what does that mean to you?
I realize the enormity of this statement, that there is nothing that I could ever do to pay my debt, yet God paid it for me.
Psa 49:7 No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them—
Psa 49:8 the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough—
Also I understand why God would refer to my seeking more forgiveness as treating his blood as an unholy thing. To do so not only insults God’s spirit of grace, it also declares that the blood of Jesus was not good enough to pay for all of my sins.
Rom 6:10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
Heb 7:27Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
Heb 9:12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
Heb 9:26Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Changing over to see that you are forgiven as it was done at the cross, in Father’s view, is very hard to conceptualize, when we have been brought up to see from other peoples view especially upbringing. And when one starts to read the word for themselves and see being forgiven as just a fact, whether one sins or not is beyond this worlds view. God is the one that sees us as perfect through Son.
Colossians 1:22Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
22 in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
So since all are forgiven by Son’s death, we are made perfect presented to Father this way, what is left to get? Could it be new life as Christ came to give, in Spirit and truth? Since God is a Spirit and can only be worshiped this way
John 4:24Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
So it can only be by the resurrected Son, can we have life new in Spirit then right? Just thinking what is transformed? Our flesh? or our mind set, giving us life in Spirit and truth?