"For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more .” -Heb 8:12 What's the worst thing you've done? Or that has been done to you? The event or sin you're constantly replaying in your mind and repeating in the prayer closet. I think most of us want to believe that God forgives each of our sins but oftentimes our words & actions/inactions betray us. We proclaim God's forgiveness but continue reminding the Lord of our past failures each time they come to mind. But is this God's desire for us? To continue in an earthly state of "purgatory" until we've paid our debt? Until we feel enough guilt and shame for what we have done? Did not Jesus die for this very reason? Does not the Bible say that "God made H im who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Cor 5:21). So if the Lord already paid the price for our sins taking upon Himself any shame attached, how do w...
Teachings found in the Scriptures and how they apply to us today