God’s forgiveness is just too beautiful, too powerful, and sometimes it feels too good to be true that I struggle to believe it.
He is faithful even when I am not. He is still a friend and more to me, despite my biggest failures. I end my days with a stain on my soul, a mark on my skin, yet He greets me every morning with grace and washes me clean.
I breathe the air, eat the food, rest on the bed, live under the roof, and walk on the ground that I do not deserve — but He gives it to me anyway. All the blessings rain down from heaven to the house of a sinner, endlessly.
This is when I realize: being a believer will never be about me or my mistakes. It is about who God is.
In John 8:19, Jesus told the Pharisees, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father.”
I believe that knowing God is not only about studying the Scripture and the laws or doing ‘good’ things or going to church. I believe that to genuinely and truly know God starts with knowing Jesus Christ, His Son, Our Savior.
Jesus, in His time, taught us about loving God and loving others because He mirrors who God is — God is many things, but above all, He is love.
Not having love in your heart is not having God in your life.
Because where God is, there is love.
And where there is love, there is forgiveness. There is grace. There is provision. There is happiness. There is peace. There is compassion. There is mercy. There is generosity. There is patience. There is truthfulness. There is faithfulness. There is selflessness. There is goodness. There is kindness. There is healing. There is resurrection. There is restoration. There is sustenance. There is salvation.
And there is no failure that can separate us from His love. The gap between the sinfulness of man and the holiness of God, between sin and salvation, has been revived and reconnected by the blood on the cross.
So today, I told myself that whenever I start to underestimate God’s forgiveness, I must remember how great God’s love is that He sent His only Son to save me from the eternal suffering that I deserve.
He loves me so much that Jesus — the holiest, spotless lamb of God — sacrificed Himself and became my sin, so He can become my righteousness.
