The Road Patch...
On one of the regular routes
I use, there was a rough patch of road we always had to avoid to prevent our cars
from being flung into the pothole. It was probably fixed sometime during the
night without our knowing, but it still looked like a rough patch. And so we
kept driving and swerving because our consciousness was stamped with that pothole
in the patch. One day I was driving through and it dawned on me that I didn’t
need to dodge this patch anymore, it was fixed, and I confidently drove over it
while others ahead of me still swerved…. Smart girl I am. I really am smart,
silly people stressing themselves out for nothing.
We sin. We’re only humans…
but as blood washed, blood bought children of God, our sins are not enough to
separate us from the love of God. Its just like that rough patch of road… we
come before God cautious and guilt ridden in prayer… just like the cars
swiveling to avoid the pothole. We forget there’s been a repair… once we come
to God for forgiveness, He forgives, He washes us, He cleanses us… or why else
would the word say “there is therefore no
condemnation to those in Christ”… why else would it say nothing can
separate us from the Love of God? Because when we come to Him He washes us
clean, the blood of Jesus washes us and speaks forgiveness for us in the presence
of the father.
The blood is our shield, its detoxifies us, its our everything.
But we’re so sin conscious, that we still walk around God with caution because
of the sin we committed three years ago. Condemnation still holds us down even
after God has forgiven us… we feel God is still waiting to punish us big time,
He hasn’t forgotten that sin… as soon as we have a headache, our minds go
straight to the sin and we wonder if punishment time has come. Just like the
other drivers avoided the patch, because they were so conscious of it. Oh come boldly
into His presence, drive through that patch with confidence…. He says come boldly and obtain mercy. How
glorious He is.
Thank God for the birth of
Jesus, that led to His crucifixion and taking the price of our sins on Himself
just to save us. Now the blood of sprinkling speaks better things for us, it
takes away condemnation and guilt consciousness, our sins are forgiven, we are
justified.
God isn’t some big bad god
waiting to punish us; eager to send us to hell… you think He would sacrifice
Jesus if He wanted us punished? We only punish ourselves by refusing to respond
to His love. Yes He is a mighty and fierce warrior, but that’s to those who
come against us, in the same breath He is the gentle savior to us. How He
loves us, how He hurts that we don’t see Him in the light of His love but as a
shadow of fear and condemnation breathing down our necks all day every day…
pointing accusing fingers. If you feel accused even after repentance, that’s
not God, that’s satan, because He is the ‘accuser
of the brethren’. (Rev 12:10)
We’ve conditioned our minds
to be guilt conscious. Its so hard to take forgiveness of sins without penance,
so hard to think we can easily be forgiven, so we distance ourselves, we move
away from His love and eventually let go because we let our guilt kill our
worship… We become works conscious, trying to make up for sin by going to
church everyday and sweeping the church and carrying a bible in our hands for
the world to see. That’s works, trying to justify ourselves when Jesus has done
all that for us… He’s right there righteous before God interceding for us, seated
at the right hand of God and we who have received Him are seated with Him at
God’s side… God hates sin, but He forgives us as soon as we ask because the
blood of Jesus has given Him no choice but to forgive and forget our sins.
See His love for you… run
into this love and obtain mercy, and bask in forgiveness and goodness and joy
and peace and good and perfect gifts. See the father’s love for you. How many
of you have had rebellious stints as children? Many must have stolen from
parents, gotten pregnant, dropped out of school or done something hideous at
one point or the other… but look how your parents still love you, even if they
are just the channels you came into the world through… how much more your God?
The one who formed you and conceived the idea of you and placed you in the
hands of your parents to take care of you.
Stop avoiding that patch, the
pothole has been filled, drive with confidence over it. Say hello to your God
with confidence, He truly has forgiven you.
(Its funny sometimes when we
say there’s a special place in hell for murderers and then just before the
hideous murderer dies, He grabs a revelation of Jesus and gives His
life to Christ and then we stroll into heaven and see Him having a bbq on the
streets of gold… sounds unfair right? But that’s God. Look at the thieve on the
cross with Jesus...He received salvation just at the point of his death... Everyone is welcome!)
I thank God for redemption. Available to all who will call upon our loving God. The "patch of sin" completely fixed through the blood of Jesus. No wonder His word says for us to come boldly. .. I bless the name of God for the clear insight u have of HIS word.
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