Today's promise: God forgives all sins,
no matter how big
Why would God want to
forgive?
"I will cause
wonders in the heavens and on the earth — blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon will turn blood red before
that great and terrible day of the Lord arrives. And anyone who calls on the
name of the Lord will be saved. There will be people on Mount Zion in
Jerusalem who escape, just as the Lord has said. These will be among the
survivors whom the Lord has called."
Joel 2:30-32 NLT
If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.
1 John 1:8-9 NLT
Bound by His Word
"Why would God
want to forgive people who have spent a lifetime denying him and hurting him?
Why doesn't he just zap them? In our humanity we say that certain people don't
deserve forgiveness. In his sovereignty and perfect love. God says, "I
love and forgive those who, to others, appear unsalvageable." This is just
one of the ways in which God's thoughts are beyond our own. His mercy is so
overwhelming that it can seem unreasonable to us. Are you willing to let God's
mercy do as it wishes — with anyone?1
If His conditions are
met, God is bound by His Word to forgive any man or any woman of any sin
because of Christ.
Billy Graham2
1from the TouchPoint Bible with commentaries by Ron Beers and Gilbert Beers (Tyndale) p 760
2quoted in Wise Words & Quotes by Vernon McLellan (Tyndale) p 102
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