Let It Go…

May 19     Let It Go…   Lamentations 3:22-23

**Please Continue to Pray for the Nation of ISRAEL! **

Good morning from Pastor Glen Brock, Baptist Tabernacle Church, Wendell, North Carolina… “It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23)

Once again, I was sharing the Love of Jesus with a young man and his response was typical, especially from someone that has been deeply involved in worldly issues and has created a trail of past mistakes.  He said, “I have done some terrible things, and I don’t see how God can forgive me of my actions!”  My response is always the same!  “Your past sins and the intensity of those sins, make zero difference to God!”  He tells us, in Romans 3:23, that “all of us have sinned and have fallen short of the Glory of God!”  God’s Love for us, is all encompassing, and He sees sin as sin and does not quantify its level of bad!  He tells us to “Confess” our sins!  He tells us to come to Him in “Believing Faith!”  He tells us to ask Him into our lives, and He tells us that He WILL SAVE US!  Notice that He didn’t say, “I will save you, unless you have done this or that,” HE SAID THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES WILL BE SAVED!  So, we have got to let go of the past and we must not allow what was, to dictate what is to be!  I take great comfort in the promises of God, found in Psalm 103:11-12, when it tells me that, “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”  Does that sound like He is unable to save us from our sins?  You may have to bear about in your human body the consequences of your past sins, however, you do not have to be burdened down with, and by those sins!  When you, by Faith, believing in the Son of God: Jesus Christ, and Confess, Ask and Receive His Saving Grace, then, that which is past is past and He forgives and He wipes our slate clean, before God the Father, by His Shed Blood!  So, Jesus has provided forgiveness, and He has provided release, so, shouldn’t we stop living and dwelling on the past and let go of the past?  1 John 1:9 tells us that, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness.”  It does not matter how “Bad” you think that you have been, God’s Love and His Forgiveness is greater and larger than any of our Human Actions!  Remember what  2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”  What Was is What Was!  What God Does with You Is Entirely Up To You!  IT ALWAYS HAS AND IT ALWAYS WILL!  Stay Strong, Stay Focused…THE BEST IS YET TO BE!