Welcome, Forgiveness!

Song: Nothing But The Blood

Scripture: Psalm 32

Guilt. What an ugly word! It’s so unpleasant that men in our time have sought to explain it away as some sort of psychosis, or mental disorder.

Guilt is real. It’s the consequence of sin. The fact of guilt occurs when a man breaks God’s law. The feeling of guilt occurs when a man’s conscience makes him aware of the fact of his guilt. The result is a restless, nervous void in the center of a man’s being that nothing can fill. When you know you’re guilty, you can’t sleep. Your work isn’t done. There are matters still pending. When you’re guilty, you can’t eat. Nothing satisfies. No pleasure. Not even filling the most basic appetite.

When you’re guilty, you feel sick. Sometimes you may even get physically sick. You’re susceptible to depression, to mood swings, to anger, to loneliness, to self-pity. A guilty man is not a happy man. Guilt is a chastisement that the Lord intends for a man’s own good.

Ah, but forgiveness! Can it be? Here is freedom for the captive. Here is release for the prisoner. Not freedom to indulge in sin once again. But freedom to serve in the role for which God fitted man, as a bond-servant of God. The fact that God will forgive our rebellion—what joyous news! Who can imagine? But it is promised.

“How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!” Guilt be gone! Come in forgiveness, my friend. Here’s a solution for the past. Here’s hope for the future. Here’s life for the present.

Jason Moore