Can you list everything you have done wrong in your life? Do you remember every little detail and every wrong you committed, even those that may be so minute as to seem unimportant? What is you could? How long would that list be? How many pages would it take to print them?
We all commit wrongs during our lives. Some are viewed as insignificant. Others are far more significant. Some may even result in serious injury or death of ourselves or someone else. We commit some wrongs as children, not fully understanding the impact of the wrong.
I confess. I cannot remember every wrong I have committed in my life. However, I do remember some of them. I can remember borrowing a dime from another boy when I was in fifth grade and never repaying him. It is insignificant now. The dime did not result in life or death. I cannot remember why I borrowed it. I simply remember I never paid him back.
Regardless of what wrongs we have committed; we can rest assured that we have been forgiven by God. Not because we deserve it. Only because Jesus paid the price for our wrongs. It is because we belong to Christ that we can be forgiven. But that is not all. Not only are we forgiven but we are lavished with the riches of his grace!
Through the sacrifice and rising of Jesus, God blesses us more than we realize. We know we live in a chaotic world. Yet, we can have peace in Jesus. We know that one day our mortal bodies will give out. But we know we will go to live with Him forever. It is because of God’s grace that we have hope for tomorrow and for eternity.
I pray we all know we are forgiven. I pray we know God has granted us riches by his grace. I pray each one of us know that because of Jesus we have hope and life everlasting. Know you are forgiven. Know God’s grace is shed on you. Believe God has blessed you. Hold onto the hope provided by Jesus.
Ephesians 1:7-8a In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace that he lavished on us.
Marty Pressey 