Instead, be kind to each other,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
just as God through Christ
has forgiven you.
There’s a grand sense of freedom once you’ve been forgiven for something that's been bothering you. Receiving forgiveness means that you've got a new beginning and a new hope. It means that the things of the past are swept away and all things become like new (2 Corinthians 5:17). I once read about a cemetery grave with an inscription on its headstone of the word, "Forgiven." There was no name, no date of birth or year of death. Just the single word, "Forgiven." That said, forgiveness from God is quite possibly the greatest thing that could ever happen to a person's life. Everything from your past would be gone and forgotten. You could start over fresh, clean and with a new life. You could utter the words, "I'm forgiven," without any hesitation or fear. You would feel the freedom of knowing that all of your sins have been washed away.
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another verse that can go with this is one of my life verses
Philippians 1:21: "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain."
we are saved by God's grace, we are forgiven for our sins and we are born again, we are starting fresh.
you truly know this when you feel that feeling no one can explain, when you feel overwhelmed and sometimes cry and you don't even know why. being saved is being forgiven...just like what it says in this devotion..."you can utter the words, 'I'm forgiven,' without any hesitation or fear. You would feel the freedom of knowing that all of your sins have been washed away."...and that is part of the reason why you feel that unexplainable feeling (besides the fact that you have just received Christ into your heart)
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AMEN! Philippians 3:13 "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead"
amen!!!
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