God is a forgiving God. This truth is so precious to understand and accept!
It means that God never holds any sin against you. Ever!
No matter how bad of a crime you commit, no matter how cruel you were to a friend, no matter how far you strayed from the moral path, no matter how lost you got in the world of sense, God still loves you. God does not keep track of your errors. God beholds your inherent spiritual purity and perfection made in the divine likeness.
This is not to say that divine law overlooks sin and pretends like it doesn’t matter. Divine law requires obedience to moral and spiritual law. It upholds all that is right and just. But this doesn’t mean God is keeping track of your errors in the meantime. It means that divine law is always at work moving you in the direction of doing the right thing and living in accord with all that is moral and spiritual. Alignment with God is inevitable for everyone, either here or hereafter.
But while we learn how to live morally and be spiritually minded, God is not keeping track of our mistakes along the way. God is pouring forth more love and more truth to help us be moral and spiritual. God supports us. God cares for us. God loves us. This is how God saves us from sin and destruction.
God is like the sun. The sun just keeps shining day after day putting its light out there for us to enjoy and to soak in. God does the same with love. God just keeps loving us and loving us, pouring forth His infinite care and provision for us to be safe and benefit from. Our job is to mentally stand in the presence of God, soak in that love and let it heal us and save us.
So, hold no fear toward God! God is not looking down on you with a judgmental eye that condemns you for past errors. God is looking down on you with a loving eye that says, “Come to me and be free. I forgive you and I love you.”
What a wonderful reminder of God’s faithfulness and unfailing love He has for each one of us, regardless of our past.
I love Psalm 51 which says: Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin… Cleanse me with hyssop and I will be clean; wash me and I will be whiter than snow… Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me… Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
We do not have to live in fear and regret but we can experience and embrace God’s love that He has for each of us.
Evan, what a beautiful way to start my day – to be reminded of God’s unchanging and constant love. Thank you.
Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son comes to thought. He returns from his “night of sin” to his Father’s opened arms for a celebration. I love the idea of God rejoicing in our innate goodness and purity! Your blog was so comforting, Evan. We have such a good God!
Beautiful! Thank you!
Evan, as I read this blog that God forgives, it reminded me of how mortals try to measure goodness and intelligence from a material standpoint and not a spiritual one. It is an impossible task to measure the amount of goodness that is expressed because of it’s infinitude. The same with intelligence. Thou the medical profession when examining a patient asks the patient if he knows his name, today’s date, and where he’s at or where he’s going. If the patient slips up and answers wrongly he is seen approaching some kind of senility, which is totally wrong and usually ends up with the wrong diagnose.
God forgives even the patient for accepting this wrong diagnose and also the medical practitioner who even gives it. And that’s what we as CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS should also do, FORGIVE!!!
Beautifully written. We each can take comfort that the greatest of all blessings is the constancy of God’s love for us. Allowing us to turn from our destruction as Hezekiah and be restored to our spiritual state as God created us. Just a wonderful freeing thought to start the day. Thank you Evan.
Very supporting thoughts to consider Evan. I read this article to my husband, who has always felt condemned by a God that keeps score. He never wanted to attend confession because the “sins” always kept him subjugated to the religious doctrine of just ” not quite being good enough.” He liked the idea of being seen as wholly good and living a moral life. So thank you for our morning discussion.
Thank you!
Clarity that is always so very helpful.
Dear Evan
As I struggle to be free from past medical treatment I do keep score and have become discouraged.
Thank you for your message today.
Thanks for this message, and all the replies! I am so glad to be learning daily more and more about how deeply God loves me. That knowledge, true understanding of it, is what brings healing, even as it did for Paul in Biblical times. Knowing God’s love helps me forgive myself when I slip up – and helps me overcome mortal mind’s attempts to drag me down by rehashing mistakes in thought, and feeling bad about them.
What a great message to one and all. Our Father-Mother never stops loving us, forgiving us, guiding us, tenderly showing us the way and never gets tired of doing this for us! It is His/Her joy to care for us every moment! Stand in His presence unafraid and lift up your voice in gratitude!
Thanks for sharing this hope filled message Evan!
If God doesn’t keep score, then neither shall I.
Thank you, Evan. Needed to be reminded of this powerful sense of God’s love.
Yes Evan, if God loves us so very much that He forgives us and does not hold anything against us, then we should do likewise by loving and forgiving our trespassers. We need to see everyone as God sees them in their true spiritual identity which is absolutely pure and flawless. If we hold this spiritual view and keep the true model of God’s creating in our focus all the time, then we see the reality come alive in our experience, and Gods perfect child does come to the fore. Its like the dark clouds clearing up and the sun appearing bright and clear.
Thanks for the reminder. Cause we often get mesmerised by the material picture and forget all about reality.