I REALLY love today's "Grace Inspirations" by Joseph Prince! It is SO true and powerful!
SEE YOUR FAILURES THROUGH THE
CROSS
Hebrews 10:17 then He adds,
“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
When I was a young Christian
growing up in Singapore, I read a little tract entitled This Was Your Life.
In that tract, it said that when you get to heaven, God will replay your entire
life, including all your sins, on a huge video screen for all the angels and
other saints to watch!
The idea that God was making such
a video of my life with the intention of screening it for everyone to watch
used to make me feel awful and condemned before God. How could I ever stand
boldly in His presence? And how was I going to face my loved ones and Christian
friends in heaven?
I was a nervous wreck, thinking
about all my sins that God was recording down, until I read this in the Bible:
“Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin” (Romans
4:8). Hallelujah! I jumped for joy when I found out that God was not counting
my sins against me, and that He has given me something called “non-imputation
of sins”!
My friend, the reason that God
does not impute any of our sins to us is that He has already imputed all of
them to the body of His Son Jesus when He hung on the cross 2,000 years ago.
Not only that, when God punished His Son for our sins, He caused the curse of
the law to fall stroke by stroke upon Jesus’ entire body until every curse had
been fully satisfied. That is why we have been redeemed from the curse of the
law (see Galatians 3:13). That is why, instead of imputing sin to us, God
imputes righteousness!
God wants us to know that our
sins and lawless deeds He will remember no more. The words “no more” in
the original Greek text carry a strong double-negative meaning. In other words,
God is saying, “No way, by no means, will I ever remember your sins again!”
Beloved, since God says that He
will remember your sins no more, why do you still remember them? Or for that
matter, your spouse’s or neighbor’s sins? God does not want you to be
sin-conscious but righteousness-conscious, because knowing you stand righteous
in Christ empowers you to reign over sin and reign in life (see Romans 5:17,
6:14)!
AMEN and AMEN! What tremendous news this is! God WILL not, because He CANNOT, hold our sins against us when JESUS took them all away and dealt with them! HALLELUJAH! Here is Hillsong Kids with a song from their new album called "My Hallelujah", because THIS Truth today is a celebration of all that HE has done! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
