There is no other way to say this because that is the simple truth: Jesus Christ died for your sins.
You have lived long enough to know that most things are transactional in this life, so you may wonder why a holy God would want to wipe away your sin, by paying the price for you through a gruesome death of Jesus Christ His son. You may struggle to make sense of it all when there does not appear to be any advantage God secures by doing this for you. More than that, it sounds too easy, that to be forgiven, you have no part to play save to accept what Jesus has done for you. You may not be alone in thinking that ‘cheap things cost’; there must be a catch somewhere.
Do not chase after shadows; there is no catch.
On offer is the gift of living free of guilt and having the power to overcome the impulse to do wrong things only to regret them; but most importantly, the gift makes it possible to approach God as your father, one who loves and embraces you without judgment.
If you are thinking that it sounds too good to be true (and probably is), let me reassure you that it is true because God is good, and if you can have the courage to believe it, it will be yours to take and to keep.
Why is it so hard for you to believe that all your sins can be forgiven?
Is it perhaps because you have made God in your own image, and you cannot see how God can forgive what you cannot forgive, even of yourself? Or is it because you have categorised your sins and decided that lesser sins God may feel comfortable to forgive, but others, perhaps not?
If that is how you feel, know this: God has truly forgiven you. He also invites you into fellowship with Himself. He has done this through the death and burial of Jesus Christ by which He provided the blood of a covenant between Himself and humanity. The shedding of the blood of Jesus through His crucifixion, was a sacrifice acceptable to God for the payment of your sins.
Therefore, from the time Jesus died on the cross at a place called Golgotha (or Calvary), every human being who accepts His death as a sacrifice for them has all their sins forgiven. This includes you.
It is not God’s mercy, based on the severity (or lack of it) in a particular sin that enables Him to forgive even the worst sins, but His acceptance of Jesus’ blood as payment for sin.
The good news is this: it is not about you, or about what horrible, terrible sin you have committed or are committing even now, but about His faithfulness to His promise and His covenant with you, that you will be saved from the consequences of sin because of the death of Jesus.
Know this once and for all: from the time you heard the preaching of the word of God and believed that Jesus died the cruel death of crucifixion for you as an individual in order that you would not have to receive the consequences of your sins, you received God’s salvation. All your sins were, and are truly forgiven.
When Jesus did not stay dead but was raised to life, He overcame death which is the consequence of sin.
In this new era in which your sin has been paid for, and its consequence (death), has been overcome, you have been given the right and power to live a new life of fellowship with God.
God has made it possible for you to live with Him as His own child because His son Jesus took your place, paid the debt which was yours to pay (death), and has given you His own life and His righteousness.
He has become your Saviour, and He has declared that you are free.
Believe it. Accept it as true for you, Embrace it. Enjoy it, and Trust Him.
He has made you worthy to be forgiven everything.
You are forgiven, really.
Romans 10: 9-10; Col. 1:14; 1 John 3:1; Heb 10: 12-14; John 8:36
