God says in His Word that He \u2018blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted.\u2019<\/i> (Isaiah\u00a043:25\u201326\u00a0NKJV) Today if you\u2019re condemning yourself because you think your sins are too big to merit God\u2019s grace, go back and reread those Scriptures carefully. <\/p>\n
Why<\/i> did God say He would forgive your sins? \u2018For My own sake.\u2019<\/i> So what should you do? \u2018State your case, that you may be acquitted.\u2019<\/i> Why do we have such a hard time accepting God\u2019s forgiveness? <\/p>\n
(1) Because in some cases we feel like we\u2019re reaping what we have sown. <\/p>\n
(2) Because we have condemned someone else for doing the very thing we ourselves did. <\/p>\n
(3) Because we think God likes to keep us twisting in the wind for a while so we will think twice before committing the same sin again. <\/p>\n
(4) Because growing up, when we disobeyed our parents, they took away certain privileges until we had proven ourselves. <\/p>\n
(5) Because we think we have to be \u2018worthy\u2019 of God\u2019s mercy. <\/p>\n
But when you refuse to forgive yourself, you\u2019re implying that your transgressions are beyond the scope of God\u2019s grace. And that\u2019s a bigger sin\u2014pride! And here is another thought. When you always have \u2018issues\u2019 with other people, you may be looking<\/i> for someone to offend you. That way, you can point to how bad the other person is and feel better about yourself. When you adopt a humble attitude and work on forgiving yourself because you know God has exonerated you, it\u2019s easier to forgive other people\u2019s mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
God says in His Word that He \u2018blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted.\u2019 (Isaiah\u00a043:25\u201326\u00a0NKJV) Today if you\u2019re condemning yourself because you think your sins are too big to merit God\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}