Forgiven

I woke up this morning with a headache and feeling terrible because of some things I said that I shouldn’t have among other transgressions that came to mind. I asked God to forgive me, ripped up the spiritual crop I started in the kingdom of darkness with my words, and purposed not to say or do those things again. I still felt bad. I asked God to give me a scripture to help me. He gave me Psalm 26, and reminded me that if the devil can’t take a person off track one way, he’ll try another. The verse that stood out to me, is when David says in vs 2 “Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; test my heart and my mind”. David was confident he had no sin for God to find. But David had sinned in his life. I saw that he trusted in God’s forgiveness and cleansing from those sins when he confessed them. It made me realize that I was still holding myself guilty for what God told me would be cleansed, if I confessed it to Him. 1John 1:9. Satan, the accuser of the brethren, was trying to keep me from receiving what was already mine. I received the forgiveness and cleansing that belonged to me, and now I am right or righteous before God–perfect in His sight.

Unforgiveness even of self and shame is meant to keep us from serving God fully. Don’t fall for it like I did. Once we confess that sin, it is as though it never happened. We’ve been freed from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2) by all that Jesus suffered on the cross to live the victorious life we were promised in His Word. 1John 5:4