God's Forgiveness

        We have a lot of expressions in our daily lives which are catchy phrases and sound pretty good.  There is an expression that goes, "True love is never having to say, 'I'm sorry.'"  While we may think of this as being an expression of love between two people here on this earth, there is, in fact, only one person who could fulfill that saying and He is the Lord Jesus Christ.   Ephesians 4:31-32 says, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."  
     These verses remind us that we are to forgive others as Christ has forgiven us.  He is the standard.   When we come to Christ for salvation, our sins are forgiven past, present and future.  We realize that once we are saved, we are not perfect.  Oh, we praise God for our salvation, but there is still the tendency to sin.  We can rightly associate with the Apostle Paul in Romans 7 where he tells us that the things he doesn't want to do is what he ends up doing and the things that he want to do, he doesn't do.   Our spiritual lives contain long lists of failures to do what God wants us to do and just as long a list of things that we are not supposed to do but end up doing.  It is then that we can thank God for His forgiveness.  You see, it just wasn't that moment that we received Christ as Savior, but He keeps of forgiving.  It is hard to imagine forgiveness for future sins, but the blood of Christ was sufficient for all the sins of all mankind that would ever be committed.  Our salvation is secure in Christ.  Oh, the fellowship with God will be broken when we sin which is why we need to confess our sins according to First John 1:9.  Once again, God forgives and our fellowship is restored.  So, true love may be never having to say you are sorry, but only Christ can say that and only He can do that.  He won't forget to forgive and He won't forget to supply your needs and He won't forget to keep you safe.  All of His promises are secure in the fact that He is God and He is able to do all that He says He will do.  So, how are you doing today?  If you have sin in your life then, ask for forgiveness.  God will do just that and your fellowship will be restored.  I am so thankful that Christ died for my sins and even at this time would like to say to the Lord Jesus Christ, "I'm sorry."  "I am sorry that I sinned and I am sorry that you had to pay the price for my sins, but I sure am glad that you did, because without you, I would have no hope."   Praise God today for His greatness and His ability to forgive and to forgive and to forgive.