Sins Removed For Time And Eternity

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9

What happens when you incur a debt so large that you can never repay it? Then it is up to someone else to forgive you … or else!

That’s precisely what happened when you became a Christian. Your insurmountable debt of sin was forgiven by the payment of an infinite price: the blood of Jesus Christ.

Dwight L. Moody offers this illustration to help you comprehend the magnitude of forgiveness.

WALK WITH DWIGHT L. MOODY
“We greatly dishonor God by bringing up our sins after he has forgiven them. Hundreds of Christians are doing this all the time.

“Suppose my little child has disobeyed me, and comes to me and says, ‘Papa, I did what you told me not to do; I want to be forgiven.’ She has deep and genuine repentance. I kiss away her tears and forgive her.

“She then comes to me the next day and wants to talk about it. ‘No,’ I say, ‘it is all forgiven.’

“The next day she says, ‘Papa, won’t you forgive me for that sin I did two days ago?’ I think that would grieve me! Suppose she came to me every morning for six months: Would it not grieve and dishonor me?

“God has not only forgiven our sins, but has removed them for time and eternity. Ought one to grieve and dishonor him by bringing them up before him every day?”

WALK CLOSER TO GOD
God’s forgiveness is like a canceled promissory note—torn apart and burned, never to be shown to you again.

Let the words of this simple chorus reflect your response to God for his forgiveness to you:

He paid a debt he did not owe,

I owed a debt I could not pay,

I needed someone to wash my sins away.

And now I sing a brand new song—

Amazing grace—

Christ Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay.