Are you struggling with guilt or addiction? Do you have a financial or a relationship problem? Is there an area in your life where you feel that you’ve failed? Those may be clues that you may not be fully convinced that God loves and accepts you, is pleased with you, and that He desires good for your life—including intimate relationship with Him.
You have been made right before God. (Rom. 2:13)
But you may not consider yourself holy. (Heb. 10:10) A person who does not know they’ve been made holy will continue to act as if they are unholy. But when you are established in the fact that you are holy and right with God, you will start acting like it! The fruit of that understanding will spill out and show itself in every area of your life.
Does that mean you will never make another mistake or that you will never miss the mark and sin again? No. At some point or another, you will violate your conscience; you will hurt someone with your words or disappoint them with your actions. When that happens, seek forgiveness from the person you wronged and try to make it right so you can live at peace and keep your mistakes from becoming an issue in your relationship with them. (Rom. 12:17-21) But know that your mistake (your sin) will never become an issue between you and God. Jesus has taken care of that issue permanently! (Heb. 10:14) He has completely removed your sin and signed a covenant of peace between you and God!
Your sin is not hiding and waiting for an opportune moment to revisit you and shout to God that you are “unclean.” It isn’t attached to your hip, hoping to trip you up whenever you aren’t looking so that you can’t enter God’s presence. It’s not even buried in your heart trying to dig its way out. Your sin has been removed!
I am fully persuaded, and that’s good news, my friend!