Jesus’ death is sufficient for all the sins of every person for all time. To be a Christian is to live in this reality. It is to live in the context of a relationship of perpetual grace with God. The supply of grace cannot run out because the source is infinite. This means that when we fail, it is safe to go to God with our failure. This is very counter-intuitive for us. Our immediate response to our own guilt is to avoid God. But Jesus has brought us into God’s household which is a ‘grace zone’. In this zone, our sins, when brought out into the open, do not attract condemnation but grace. When we confess our sins, God rushes to us to extinguish the guilt in order that this sin may no longer have power over us. He doesn’t rush to us with judgement but with salvation. This doesn’t mean that God is not displeased when we sin. He is displeased because every sin expresses mistrust at some level. Sin is not just a moral failure; sin is essentially a relational breakdown between us and God. God is grieved over our sin, not just because we did something bad, but because we have thereby rejected him in some way. He therefore comes to us, not to push us away, but to draw us back. He wants to repair the broken relationship. It doesn’t matter how serious the rift is. God’s desire for reconciliation is greater than any breach we may have caused.
Confess your sins to God.
Read Hebrews 10:1-18
