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| 1Jo 1:9 | | If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. |
Did you ever consider this process? The process of asking for forgivness from an un-blemished un-flawed, holy and righteous God. A God that is perfect and just in all His ways. A God that considers all things and most of all knows all things.
This is nothing new, but I began to think about myself, and then I attempted to consider God in His ways, and I boiled the conversation down to this: "I forgive you on Monday even though I know that you will commit the same sin on Friday." And for that, I was stubbed. This all knowing and all wise God is able to forgive us, even when He knows that we are going to offend Him again, with the same offense.
But yet in still, the Word says that we must simply confess. As a human, I tried to place myself in this position and I looked at how I consider the ways of those before me, and to date, I have not lived up to God's standard. If I know that a person is going to offend me again in the same manner, chances are that the first offense would not be forgiven, and the second offense would be an act condemable by death :).
I asked God, "How is it possible to offend someone who is guilty first, a multiple offender second, and a future offender third?" God said to me, beyond the offense is the offender, and to reach the offender, I must get pass the offense. I get pass the offense, not by overlooking it, but by examining it though a process called Justification. Justification is a process that enables Gpd to deal with that which is dirty, and handle it because He has restored it, rebuilt it, renewed it, and thus He reclaimes it.
The love that God has for us, the offender, is deep enough, that the offense will not keep Him from reaching out to us, when we are in sin, and when we are headed towards sin. Truly, God is God, and we are not.
As of this point, I will strive to forgive on the level that Jesus forgives, and deal more with the offender and adjust my lenses to see past the offense. Lets all do the same. |
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