You give awesome advice so maybe o can get some. Years ago I thought I knew God but didn't obviously, living in sin was awful. But finally I wanted to get to Christ Ansley go of that garbage. But now I worry. Reading my bible I see people can't know God and live in sin and still come back to him. So is my faith real now or is it just me trying after something that I can't have anymore?
As I was reading your message, a quote I read a while back came to mind. It said:
You are not too dirty for God to cleanseYou are not too broken for God to fixYou are not too far for God to reachYou are not too guilty for God to forgiveAnd You are not too worthless for God to love
I feel like there’s someone out there that really needs to hear this: as long as you still have breathe, then it isn’t too late. Isn’t never too late. Okay?
Beloved, Scripture makes it abundantly clear that there is no limit to God’s forgiveness. Psalm 103:12 in particular notes, “As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.” In 1 John 1:9 we are also promised, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” I love this verse because it tells us that when we confess our sins He not only forgives them, but also completely cleanses us. Why? Because He is faithful and just. As 2 Timothy 2:13 says, “If we are faithless, He remains faithful—for He cannot deny himself.”
Another great example of this can be found in Matthew 18:21-22: “Then Peter came up and said to [Jesus], ‘Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.’” Peter might have thought he was being generous; after all, many don’t even believe in second chances. But Jesus turned this thought completely on its head and made it clear that there is no limit to forgiveness with God.
It is true that even as believers we struggle with sin. The apostle Paul himself lamented over this battle in Romans 7:18-20: “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.” However, like Paul, our response should be to hate the sin, repent of it and ask for the divine grace to overcome it (Romans 7:24-25). Grace should not be used an excuse to sin, but rather it should motivate us to fight temptation and seek to do what is right. “In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Romans 6:11).
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