From the 2018 January special edition Insight Into
During a Bible study, two prisoners were talking together. ” I will never be able to forgive myself for what I have done,” said one of them, “My sins haunt me every day,” he added.
“That is good to hear!” his friend answered, “I have relatives who feel no guilt at all. At least you realize what you have done, and therefore you need the Lord Jesus more.”
When I heard this, I had to think of Paul. He continued to feel himself to be the least of the apostles, Sexual addictions can also lead to this, it continues to sadden you, this is good, as long as it doesn’t suffocate you, Cain ran away from God, because he had murdered is brother,
Perhaps your past depresses you, Well, you don’t have to be despondent, because there is forgiveness, Our God pardons “abundantly,” Staying humble and small is a good thing, However, We must never act as though nothing has happened, But the Lord is able to cast our sins behind His back, make them sink to the bottom of the sea, and dissolve them as a morning cloud, Don’t you believe this? Seek the Lord, He can be found in the Scriptures, Ask for eyes; ask for the Holy Spirit and for faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
To think that there is no forgiveness for you will only make things worse, If you become discouraged because you have sinned so dreadfully, you run a greater risk of falling back into sin. After all, what difference does it make if you are lost anyway?
With Him there is forgiveness.
Why? Because God wants to show that He is able to forgive.
Why? To make people astonished at such a great God, that He may be feared, as it says in Psalm 130.
Out of the depths of sadness; the feeling that you may as well quit praying, that you will soon end up in doubt and despair.
For such people there is a church, to praise that God together, because He can do what we cannot do: forgive.
Why? Because Christ, who had no sin, was forsaken of God. So that if we believe in Him, we will receive God’s Grace.
This Jesus also stretches out His arms to you, my friends.
“Wherefore I say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much’ but ot whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little” (Luke 7:47).
“For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called on apostle, because I persecuted the church of God” ( 1 Corinthians 15:9).
“unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Ephesians 3:8).
“For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it” (Galatians 1:13).