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Discipleship Focus: Forgiveness
- 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.”
One of
the things that I absolutely love about this psalm is its focus. It looks towards God and calls us to worship
Him. He is so great and mighty that His
presence simply demands our worship.
However,
lets follow the psalmist to find out for sure where this leads. In this psalm, God’s awesomeness leads us to
understand God’s grace, love and mercy.
In our transgression, God does not hold us accountable. In our sin, we are not guilty. He is willing to look past our iniquity and
bring us into His presence. We deserve
judgment and condemnation, and He offers us life instead.
It is
because of His forgiveness that we can know He remembers His covenant. Yet, it is because of His covenant that we
know He forgives. He has promised to be
with us, His creation. We may turn away
from Him, but He does not turn away from us.
We may forsake the covenant, but He abides by it.
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