verse of the day

Wednesday 24 June 2020

Are you worthy? ( Luke 18 v 9 - 14 )

In one of  G.K.Chesterton's book ,about Father Brown, we have the priest saying to someone,'Everyone  is worthy of forgiveness'. It appears a nice thought, but it is not true,in fact no one is worthy of forgiveness,  absolutely no one. Mankind we are told in Romans 3 v 23 are all without exception sinners,always remember we must consider ,not how we look at things,but how God looks at things as revealed in His word. God is not swayed by sentiment, or ill judgement,no, God knows the full picture as regards everyone of us. Consider how humanly speaking we look at things,yes the Hitlers and the like ,those real baddies deserve no forgiveness,but not that nice little old lady,or that nice old man,or that nice.....,so we could go on. Or we could replace the word nice,with the word innocent,but the fact is no one  ,no one, is innocent in Gods sight. Why did Christ come? .We read in 1 Timothy 1 v 15,that'Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners',that means you,  and it means me. The truth is, forgiveness  is an act of mercy by a merciful God,to unworthy sinners, such as you and I ,to think otherwise is to shut yourself of  from forgiveness. If we come by faith to Jesus acknowledging our unworthiness,and that we are not innocent,and ask him to be our Saviour ,then we will receive as an act of mercy from God, forgiveness for all our sins.

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