HE OFFERS FORGIVENESS
Today's reading: Psalm 128-130

"Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you." Psalm 130:3 NLT

If I held up my 'rap sheet' against that of another's I might, for an instant, be led to believe my sins were less than theirs.

I would be wrong.

Very wrong.

What overwhelms me this morning is that no matter what is listed against me, what ever my enemy drags up from my past--or from my not so distant past, to present as a reason for hopelessness, Jesus' blood covers!

He offers forgiveness to me. He offers it to you. He offers it to the folks who believe they've done too much, sinned too greatly or wandered too far. He offers it to a world who doesn't even know they need it. He offers it to the one we would all write off. He offers it to the ones who believe they're good enough on their own. He offers it like He has always offered it--freely, lovingly, graciously and mercifully.