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Discipleship Focus: Guidance, Forgiveness
- Guidance: God grants us His guidance. Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation. Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen. Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.
- Forgiveness: Forgiveness is when our sins are absolved by God. We do not deserve this forgiveness, but God grants it to us anyway. We cannot earn forgiveness, but God gives it to us anyway. As we are forgiven by God, He also asks us to forgive others. In fact, Jesus Himself teaches us to pray for our forgiveness in the Lord’s Prayer when He says, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
In this chapter of Numbers we hear about intentional and
unintentional sin. Both of these topics
require forgiveness. Sin is sin. Any unchecked sin can lead to more sin. We need forgiveness because perfection is out
of our grasp. Sin is a part of our
current reality. Our sin must be dealt
with through God’s atoning forgiveness so that we can remain in relationship
with Him.
Of course, this is then where guidance comes into play. Left to our own devices, we’ll simply sin
again. But with God’s guidance, we can
often avoid sin. God can guide us
through His ways to allow us to turn from the path of intentional and
unintentional sin and into the path of true righteousness. God’s guidance and forgiveness go hand in
hand in keeping us on a path where we can continue to walk with Him.
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