The Blessing of God’s Forgiveness – Paul Chappell

Thank God for His forgiveness!!

From Paul Chappell’s “Daily in the Word”

 Thursday, Aug 27, 2015

“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.”
Numbers 23:19–21

Throughout their journey across the wilderness, the children of Israel were constantly complaining. They griped and complained about the miraculous provision of food God gave them in the wilderness. They quaked in fear before the inhabitants of Canaan and refused to go into the land. They foolishly failed to drive out all of the people when they finally did go in, and soon began worshiping the false gods of their neighbors. Their hearts were not devoted to God.
Yet in His amazing love and mercy, when they repented, God forgave them. And not only did He forgive, but He completely forgave. Balaam’s prophecy contains this wonderful declaration that God saw no evil in the people of Israel. How is that possible? Because in His grace, God views us through the atoning blood. In Old Testament times they were looking forward to the coming Messiah and His sacrifice for sin, and we look back toward it.
Often Christians are crippled with guilt over sins from the past. Yet if our sins have been confessed and forsaken, they have vanished from God’s memory. Though there may be effects that linger, the sin is covered and forgotten. Do not allow Satan to hinder your relationship with God by bringing up old sins. God remembers them no more and there is no condemnation.
Today’s Growth Principle: 

Let us never lose sight of the amazing blessing of God’s forgiveness which we have received.