Forgiveness
May I tell you what my relationship with my Creator means to me?
The major benefit is that I have received unconditional forgiveness from my Creator. I am forgiven for all the wrong things I have done. I'm not carrying the weight of past mistakes. I can now live life without regrets.
It wasn't always like that. A few years ago it was quite different. In my gut I knew how I should be living. The harder I tried the more wrong choices I made. My moral debts just kept adding up. I worked hard to get some credit, but just kept accumulating debts.
One day I read some wonderful news at work. A customer and left behind a booklet, like the one I've shown you. For the first time in my life I heard a life-transforming formula: three things I needed to know and just ONE thing I needed to do. The three things I needed to know: (1) my Creator loves me, (2) He knows that I have made wrong choices (3) Jesus died on the cross to take my punishment for all the things I would ever do wrong.
I saw that I had a choice. I could stumble ahead under an increasing load of guilt, or accept God's offer of unconditional forgiveness. I said out loud something like this, "Jesus, I need you. Thank you for dying to pay for all the wrong things I have done. Come into my life and show me how you want me to live."
Since then life has not been without its problems. I have made some poor choices and been hurt by the consequences of not always living the way my Creator wants me to live.
But today, I am excited because of the forgiveness I've received from my Creator. May I encourage you to accept your Creator's offer of unconditional forgiveness?