What Does Forgiveness Look Like For Me?

Confidence with God begins to set in your heart when you realize your sin has been forgiven. Realizing there is no chasm between you and God vastly changes the relationship with Him. The question mark has been removed from the back of your mind in relation to salvation. Peace has found a wide-open door through which to invade your heart. Hope solidifies, and your feet feel firm for the first time, because you realize you’re standing on the Rock. No storm with its wind and driving rain can remove your newly discovered foundation.
   How does one know emphatically he’s been forgiven?  Three things emerge: one is the reliability of the Word of God. It transcends what our emotions may try to suggest to us, such as, “I don’t feel forgiven.”

If you were sincere with God, then know the sincerity of His Word. When He says He forgives those who repent and ask for forgiveness, He does.  When God says those who call on the Name of Jesus will be saved, it is so. As trite as it may sound, you know you’re forgiven because He says you’re forgiven.
   Hebrews 10:1-2 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
   Secondly, sin-consciousness vacates your mind. You no longer worry about sin ruling your life. In the process of trusting God’s Word, you’ll find you no longer give the sin you committed any further consideration. You may remember things you’ve done, but they no longer haunt you.  They’ve become a nonissue.

It is like reading a book in the third person in which you read about someone else; it’s no longer a biography or an autobiography. Why? Because it really is about someone else -the old man. In Jesus Christ, you are a completely new, never existed before creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).  That means it really is not you.
   Hebrews 10:7-10 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when He said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law.

Then said He, Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Be sure to read Hebrews 10:1-25.
   Confidence in prayer emerges as well. No one is confident with God when they feel as if sin is lurking in his heart. Of course, if he truly does have sin, there is no assurance of answered prayer, until he properly deals with it.

When the weight of sin no longer rests on your shoulders, you are free to move in the Spirit. Boldness with God increases in your heart. There is nothing in the way of your prayers getting to His ears. You know it! You are at the point where Holy Spirit bears witness to your spirit that you are a child of God. A young child has absolute confidence with his or her Abba (Daddy).

Forgiveness: Stop Holding Yourself Accountable

No one is saying there is no accountability for our actions, because we are accountable. However, the way we handle that accountability makes a big difference. By now, most realize we repent, ask and receive forgiveness when we blow it. That’s a no-brainer. Once you’ve received forgiveness, there is another critical step.
   Forgive yourself and move on. Learn from your mistakes, press toward to the mark of your high calling. Stop digging up your past, or more appropriately, stop trying to dig up the old man. He’s dead, and you are new. It’s over, even if someone tries to throw your past in your face. Let it go!
   “I can’t!” Yes you can by the grace of God. It’s time to believe God when He says you’re forgiven. Remember, justice was served at the Cross. It would be unjust on your part to not forgive yourself, if God already has for the sake of Jesus. In short, Jesus is worthy for you to be forgiven. Ask for help and come into agreement with Him.
When you’re free from sin, you’re free to love, pray, serve and enjoy the relationship with Him! That’s His will for you, embrace it! That’s what forgiveness looks like for you, if you receive it.
One final thought to leave with you: in Jesus Christ, sin has no dominion over you.
   Roman 6:6-9 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
   Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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