Over the years, I’ve lost count of the times I’ve had to go to Yahweh for forgiveness, and of the many times I’ve said to Him, “Father, I’ve done it again! When will I learn?” Does that sound familiar? How many times this week have you said, “I’m sorry” to Yahweh? His standards are high, and His expectations of His children are that we should attain to those standards. Have you ever [as I have] felt embarrassed to be going back to Him yet again? The psalmist was feeling a bit like this when he cried, “If you, [Yahweh], kept a record of sins, who could stand?” Yet faith sprang up gloriously, comfortingly, as he responded, “But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you” [Psalm 130:3-4, New International Version].
What a stupendous thought! How often we forget the sheer extent of forgiveness! We are free from the great debt and burden of sin! We are cleansed and forgiven! It is thrilling, liberating, joyous, wonderful! With our precious Father there is faithful love, and an abundance of redemption [Psalm 130:7]; how tremendous is our hope! “There is a readiness to deal with people not according to their just deserts,” writes Charles Spurgeon, “but according to free grace and the infinite mercy of [Yahweh].” It’s impossible to drain Him of forgiveness, for “His mercy is unsearchable, His kindness unfailing, His grace ever present, love in all things prevailing” [Anon].
Yahweh Himself commanded us, “Be holy because I…am holy” [Leviticus 19:2]. The great aim of a sanctified life is to grow ever closer to that goal. It’s a fact that the more holy one becomes, the more conscious one is of unholiness. The closer one grows to Yahweh, the more often [it seems] there is need to ask for forgiveness. This isn’t a sign of failure, but the symptom of a tender heart and conscience.
Amy Carmichael, who worked in India for more than 50 years, liked to quote John 6:37 from the Tamil[1] translation of John 6:37: “He who says Come to Me, does not push us away when we come.”
[1] the oldest living language in the world
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