Life is an amazing gift of God. It is a privilege to spend each
day on this beautiful world created by an awesome God. When He created the
world, He saw everything was good. Adam and Eve were given all the authority to
rule over the whole world. They had the uninterrupted fellowship of God all the
time. It is so glorious to think of such an experience. My imagination makes me
to leap in joy whenever I dream of such a fascinating state of life. We all
desire to have such a world. But, alas! Adam and Eve lost it to satan.
I believe the greatest mistake that Adam and Eve committed was hiding their sin
and running away from the presence of God. We can be sure that if they had
confessed their sin, our great God would have forgiven them. But, they did not
do it. This made God angry and He cut His fellowship with them and with all of
us. It was like surrendering to satan
by forgetting God. What a shame?
This is true even today when we turn away from God whenever we sin. But, as
children of the most high God, we have the wonderful privilege of going back to
God in repentance. This was made possible by the great sacrifice that our
loving Lord Jesus gifted us by dying on the cross. 1 John 1:9 says "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness".. What a comfort we
can draw out of this beautiful verse.
Sin is terrible, and continuing to live in sin without repentance is even disastrous.
God knows all our weaknesses. He can understand all our temptations because He
was tempted in the same way like us and yet was without sin. May be we have
sinned too much, but when we truly repent and confess our sins, God cleanses us
and forgives us in a whisker. The Bible says in Psalms 103:12 "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed
our transgressions from us".
It is a wonderful feeling to leave all the burden of guilt at the throne of
grace and receive forgiveness. If some of you happened to read this, I believe
God is speaking to you personally to get into the presence of God and confess
your sins. It may be anything, may be the ugliest sin. We may think that if
others come to know of this they may spit on us. But, don’t worry,
the one who is inside us is greater than anyone in the world. He says that he
will forgive all our sins. We can walk with our heads held high if we don’t run
away from God.
Never make the mistake that Adam and Eve did. Let us be people who fear God out
of love. We are all vessels molded by the great potter. He knows those little
rough particles in us. All that He expects is that we call on Him for help!. Remember that "whenever sin abounds, grace abounds
much more". Don't get me wrong here as this is not a license to sin. I
want to reach out to all of us who are broken because of sin in our life and
apply the balm of the love of Jesus on our wounded hearts so that we are
healed.
Thanks,
Brucelin
http://seeklifepurpose.blogspot.com/
