Forgiveness - Love so amazing, so divine!



I am a wretched sinner,
My sins are many and too
Numerous for me to count!
But,
In one breathtaking,
Earth shattering act 
Of pure love
My debt was paid!

The list containing all of my sins, past, present and future was nailed to that tree at Calvary.
Praise God, for His infinite mercy, and the depths of His forgiveness.

Psalm 103 tells us,

 " For as high as the heavens are above the earth
So great is Gods love for those who fear Him.
As far as the east is from the west,
So far He has removed our
 transgressions from us. "

Isnt that just a picture of a cross? 
A cross of such enormous magnitude that it is of cosmic proportions!
Gods love is infinite, unchanging, eternal, precious and priceless.
It is everlasting, all encompassing and all embracing!
The cross is the eternal, magnificent mystery, that spans infinity.
Stars sing about this marvellous deed and angels gasp in wondrous awe!
In a celestial symphony, planets pulsate and stars vibrate at the name above all other names. 
The name of Jesus.

Christ is the cornerstone, who underpins all of creation and the entirety of the universe, known and unknown!

 " The heavens declare the glory of God
The skies proclaim the work
Of His hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech
Night after night
They reveal knowledge! "
Psalm 19

The love of God has such a height, and width and depth, that our feeble minds just cannot comprehend it.

Oh that we would know.....

 " I pray that you being rooted and established in love
May have power, together with all the Lords holy people,
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep
is the love of Christ, and to know this love which
That surpasses knowledge, that you may be
filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. "
Ephesians 3 v 17 - 19

In the final moments, of Jesus excruciating and laboured suffering on the cross, he made two statements on which our whole eternity rests.

In breathless agony He said, " Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. "(Luke 23 v 34)
All those who beat him, humiliated him, spat at him, cast lots for his clothing, reviled him, tortured him, rejected him, despised and insulted him,
 He forgave them.
In that moment He forgave everyone who would ever curse His name, despise, reject of revile Him.
In that moment he also forgave me and you!

" Hands that flung stars into space,
 to cruel nails surrendered! "

Jesus stretched out His beautiful arms upon the cross. 
He surrendered to nails,
 that pierced the hands,
 that had hours before washed the feet of His disciples.
Cursed and dying in excruciating pain, 
He forgave those that had caused His suffering.
With His dying breath He said, " It is finished! " 
It is accomplished, paid in full, the hold of sin and death destroyed!
In this death defying, glorious moment, Jesus did it all, for us all!

Thank you, Thank you Jesus
Oh what a Saviour!
Precious Redeemer, Glorious Lord!
Worthy of every song, we could ever sing!

Even an eternity of praise, could never be enough,
 to thouroughly express the praises due His name!

Micah 7 v 19 says,
God hurls our iniquities into
The depths of the sea.

Corrie Ten Boom often said, 
God takes our sins, past present and future,
And dumps them into the sea, and puts up 
a sign which reads
NO FISHING!

Forgiveness is fundamental to the christian faith.

 C.S. Lewis stated, 
" To be a christian is to forgive the inexcusable, 
because God has forgiven the excusable in you."

Can I from the comfort of my own home, safe and warm and relaxed, forgive those who have hurt me?

You would think so, wouldnt you?

As Derek Prince puts it, it makes absolute and total sense!

" You have in your hand the IOU's  from a person that total £ 10,000.
In heaven, however God holds in His hand IOU's from you, totalling £10,000,000!
God makes you an offer, you tear up the IOU's in your hand, and I will tear up the ones in mine! "

Yet, to tell you the absolute truth, I cannot forgive........
 Not without the help of the Holy Spirit 

" To err is human and to forgive divine. " Alexander Pope

I believe to forgive, truly is divine, and when I cannot, 
I know I can ask the Father to expand my  heart, and increase my love for others
 so that, with His help and grace, I can!

Stories of supernatural forgiveness are truly inspiring. 
Like the story of Jake Deshazer who after being a prisoner of war in Japan, returned there as an evangelist and spent 30 years as a missionary to the Japanese people!

There are those who say, you can forgive and not forget!
 But I believe there is strong biblical evidence that we should also forget!
God takes our sins and dumps them into the heart of the sea! 
As far as the east is from the west, so far he has removed our transgressions from us!us

I would say, that you cant get much more forgotten than that!

Hebrews 8 v 12 says,
" For I will forgive their wickedness
and I will remember their sins no more. "

This is my prayer now, to truly forget and let go.

2 Corinthians 5 v 17, is my new proclamation,

" Therefore if anyone is in Christ,
the new creation has come.
The old has gone,
The new is here. "

THE OLD HAS GONE!
As Corrie Ten Boom would say;
NO FISHING!!


I want to walk in newness of life!

As Romans 6 v 4 says,
" We were buried with Him by baptism
into death in order that, just as Christ
was raised from the dead by the glory 
Of the Father, we too might
WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE. "

We are made new and the Lords 
Great love is new every morning!
Lamentations 3 v 23 
"Great is His faithfulness
his mercies begin afresh each morning! "

Each morning I long to be, so busy praising God, that it consumes my whole being!
I  couldnt praise God enough, if I began this moment and continued throughout all eternity.

"I will awaken the dawn
I will praise you Lord,
Among the nations.
I  will sing of you,
among the peoples. 
For great is your love
higher than the heavens.
your faithfulness reaches
to the skies. "
Psalm 108

"It is good to praise the Lord
And make music to your name most high,
Proclaiming  your love in the morning,
And your faithfulness at night. "
Psalm 92

 There is simply no time to look behind!
I need to press on and in to Jesus!
" This love, so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all!"

Corrie Ten Boom said,

" When you forgive, you open yourself up
to the vast ocean of Gods love. "
This wonderful lady inspires me so much,
I hope you enjoy this clip of her.










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