Fearless Confidence (Lent 10, 2024)

“Seeing His Love with New Eyes” requires seeing that, with God, it is possible that sin gets punished completely even while God remains pure and perfect love.  God did this through Jesus Christ.

We’ve looked at this before, but we need a constant reminder that Scripture says, “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” (1 John 4:18)

If you have been forgiven by Jesus who paid the price of our sin, do you have any reason to fear death or to a lesser degree, being exposed as a sinner?

Exercise:

Take this confidence test. Set your phone (or some other) timer for 1 minute.  Think back over the sins you know you’ve committed and pray about any that you’ve committed unaware that you did them.  Over your entire lifetime.  At the end of a minute, rate your confidence in forgiveness in this moment as a percentage.  Now run your timer as you imagine this being the final minute at the very end of your life before Judgment. Rate your confidence now.  Pray and ask God to make you perfectly confident in His forgiveness.

Tomorrow, please join me for a Sabbath reflection on approaching God’s throne of grace with confidence.

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