“Look upon my afflictions and my pain, and forgive all my sins.”
If you read the psalms closely, you will find that they take us through the spectrum of human emotions. In the Psalm 25, David showed how this is true. Throughout the psalm, David calls upon God to “show me your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.” We can identify with David, because we struggle in our own walk with God. (Some more than others, but we all do.) In the verse under consideration, David is thinking of all of his afflictions, and of his need for forgiveness from sin. He asked the Lord to forgive all of his sins. If you know anything about David’s life, you know that, though he was referred to “a man after God’s heart,” he still had a struggle with sin. The question is will God forgive all of our sins? It is possible that you think that you have committed a sin, or many sins, that God will not forgive. There are many people who are living in misery because they feel that God will not forgive them for their sins. So they live in misery in a sense of failure and spiritual defeat. With all that David had done, he still had the belief that God would forgive all of his sins. It is possible that you are not a Christian and feel that you cannot become a Christian because God will not forgive you for all of your past sins. I want you to know that God will forgive all of the sins of your past. In my years as the Director of Missions of the Tucker Baptist Association, one of my missions, was to the prisons in our county. (There was a county work camp and a state prison.) I ministered for over twenty years to inmates who had done almost everything imaginable. I ministered to men who had murdered people and yet received the forgiveness that Christ offered from His cross. They had stolen, lied, cheated, you name it, they had done it, but when confronted by the cross of Jesus, they received Christ’s forgiveness. Bring all of your sins to Christ and He will forgive you and give you peace. Just surrender to His love and concern for you. You might be a Christian who is living in misery because you feel that God will not forgive your sins. You go to Him time and time again and ask Him to forgive you for, maybe, one sin that you committed. This sin just weighs on your conscience and you cannot feel at peace with God. Sin is a terrible taskmaster and it can bind the fruitfulness of your life. God is ready and waiting for you to come to him in true repentance, asking for His forgiveness. His arms are wide open to welcome you to peace with Him. He will help you to overcome impulses, and He will help you to receive His forgiveness. Christian, believe me when I tell you that God will forgive all of your sins, just as He forgave David. I am certainly not telling you that God is pleased with the sins of your life or mine. The point of this article is to invite you to receive the love that God has for you, and to receive the forgiveness that He has offered freely from the cross. Do not let Satan allow you to live in misery because of unforgiven sin. He is the barrier that Christ overcame in His death burial and resurrection. His arms are wide open to receive you. There is so much more that should be written on God’s forgiveness. You just need to believe that our God is the forgiving God, and He will forgive all of your sins. Be sure to read tomorrow’s article on “The Forgiveness of Sin.” Bro. Joe
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