The epistle reading for the second Sunday of Easter was the famous passage from I John: “If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins”(I John 1: 8 and 9). I looked at the thick green cross at the front of the church and stood for the gospel. I sat down, swallowing hard, pulling my mind back again and again to pay attention to our pastor’s words about how people who know him would tell us what a sinner he is, and about how God has completely forgiven him. I don’t want to say I have no sin, but my sins are not in my thoughts like they used to be. Should I feel guilty about this?
Thank you so very much for the above writing, so beautifully said. Since coming here about four years ago to live with my son, I experienced God's forgiveness for a particular sin and then "His blood cleansing me from all unrighteousness (or as some would say 'all unreality'). Then His righteousness flooded my heart like a river, His innocence as the Mirror Translation names righteousness in II Cor. 5. I felt the joy of a new born baby; His faith, His peace, His making new. Having been brought up like you, Katie, I have also been through the other kind of living, letting fear be in the driver's seat, not His perfect love.
Katie this piece pierced my soul. You have beautifully described the wrestle so many of us face knowing we were created in the image of God but ultimately being far from fulfilling the measure of our creation without the help of the Savior.
Thank you for your eloquent writing, it has given me so much to ponder and encouraged me along this path of life.
Thank you so very much for the above writing, so beautifully said. Since coming here about four years ago to live with my son, I experienced God's forgiveness for a particular sin and then "His blood cleansing me from all unrighteousness (or as some would say 'all unreality'). Then His righteousness flooded my heart like a river, His innocence as the Mirror Translation names righteousness in II Cor. 5. I felt the joy of a new born baby; His faith, His peace, His making new. Having been brought up like you, Katie, I have also been through the other kind of living, letting fear be in the driver's seat, not His perfect love.
Katie this piece pierced my soul. You have beautifully described the wrestle so many of us face knowing we were created in the image of God but ultimately being far from fulfilling the measure of our creation without the help of the Savior.
Thank you for your eloquent writing, it has given me so much to ponder and encouraged me along this path of life.