- What or whom have you placed your faith in?
- Have you made such huge mistakes, that you're finding it hard to forgive yourself?
- Are you believing that if you do enough good things that you will get God's approval?
- Are you trying to make right all of your wrongs?
- Rom. 3:22 says that you are "Made Right" with God by one thing...
- By placing your faith in Jesus Christ.
- This is true for EVERYONE - No matter who you are and no matter what you've done.
- The Amplified version of Rom. 3:22, reads like this, "The righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [And it is meant] for all who believe. For there is no distinction."
- No Distinction!
- Read that over again to yourself..."No Distinction"
- Those are two great words!
- You may have made some huge blunders or mistakes in your life but that will not keep you from God's presence.
- Nothing can hold you back from complete forgiveness and healing, except for one thing ..."You"
- It's all up to you - whether you choose to believe it and receive it.
- Today, you can choose whether to focus on you mistakes and failures and sins...
- Or you can choose to focus on His forgiveness and righteousness.
- Romans 3:23 & 24 goes on to say, "For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins."
- We all start at the same place - we all have sinned...Every One of us!
- There is no such thing as "Big sins" or "Little sins" - It all blocks us from God.
- All sin puts restrictions on us.
- It restricts us from Gods presence - It's like putting up a great big barrier.
- But when you choose to put your personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ, He takes off all restrictions!
- No matter what!
- Don't let anyone put restrictions on you and don't put restrictions on yourself.
- Today, focus on what Christ has done for you, not on what you have done.
- What you choose to focus on changes everything!
- Have a great Weekend!