BACK WHERE WE SHOULD BE

BACK WHERE WE SHOULD BE

Bible:2 Samuel 11

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness (1 JOHN 1:9).

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As a teenager, she had called her parents horrible names. Little did she know that would be the last thing she ever said to them. They died hours later in a car crash. Now, even after years of counselling, she can’t forgive herself. Guilt and regret paralyse her. We all live with regrets—some of them are massive. But the Bible shows us a way through the guilt. Let’s look at one example. There’s no sugar-coating what King David did. It was the time “when kings go off to war”, but “David remained in Jerusalem” (2 SAMUEL 11:1). Away from the battle, he slept with another man’s wife and tried to cover it up with murder (VV.2-5,14-15). God stopped David’s downward spiral (12:1-13), but the king would live the rest of his life with the burden of what he had done. In the meantime the leader of his army, Joab, was winning the battle David should have been fighting (2 SAMUEL 12:26). Joab challenged David, “Now muster the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it” (V.28). David finally got back to the place God had put him—as the leader of his country and his army (V.29).When we let our regrets and mistakes crush us, we’re basically telling God His grace isn’t enough. No matter what we’ve done, our Father offers His complete forgiveness to us. We can find, as David did, grace enough to get back to where we should be with God.

OUR SIN DOESN’T DEFINE US; GOD’S LOVE DOES.

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