Daily Morning Message 3/27/2021

MORNING MESSAGE
March 27, 2021
by Gayle Gordon

"Sheol is naked before Him, and Destruction has no covering." (Job 26:6)

"Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward." (Isaiah 1:4)

It's perfectly clear in the Word that God sees all our sin. Nothing of us is hidden from our Father Who made us. If sin is hidden at all, it's we who are trying to hide from it; we make excuses. Confessing it to God is admitting it to ourselves and we can get pretty good at convincing ourselves of our innocency. But the bare-bones truth does not escape God. I can make these sweeping generalizations because the Word says that we "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," (Romans 3:23)

Getting honest with yourself is hard work. It takes maturity and strength. It can be painful. We try to avoid it when we appoint ourselves as our own judge. It's a fearful thing to offend God. We think we know how He'll react. In fact, in the life of a person who does not obey Jesus as Lord, the truth of Him as Savior is knowing Him only in part.

Jesus died to open free access to our Heavenly Father, not to blame or point His finger: "for God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." (John 3:17) We can ask God for courage to face self-analysis and let the Holy Spirit lead us to truth in Christ. What Satan does not want you to know is this: abiding, long-term, in Jesus is possible because you are forgiven. The Holy Spirit will heal and strengthen; He will lead you to know and receive God's solution: Jesus died to restore our relationship to the Father and also to gain access to you, to completely re-create your very nature.

That renders lingering guilt an act of Satan to entice you to sin. He works to turn your memory and familiarity with that sin into a temptation to repeat it. You identify with it; it defines you to yourself. That is all a lie; pray that God will show you that you are, in Him, a new creature entirely free of false identities you used to have.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)

God has freed us from our sins and all associations with sins. He will build, not destroy. He will heal and pour mercy over your heart - you are free in the Lord.
"I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah (Psalm 32:5)

"But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. ...that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus."
(Romans 3:21-22, 26b)

The truth is, you are free of fear, anger, a critical spirit, staying in darkness, driving yourself - anything you may be tripping over in your walk with Him. A huge boulder in your pathway is easier to deal with than a small pebble in your shoe. Get the pebbles out and gone; stride confidently around the boulder and keep going!