1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.I was thinking today about the whole concept of being Ninja for God, offering our entire lives as an offering to Him (for more information visit the facebook.com group “Christian- Ninja Alliance”. This life of sacrifice to God can be a really challenging thing. I don’t know about all of you, but I tend to mess up more than once each day and it can be really discouraging. The thought that always runs through my mind is: “Will God still use me after I said/ did that?” I talk myself into believing that God won’t forgive what I’ve done.
When I start thinking that’s normally when stupid things happen so, I went to my Bible to see what God says about me messing up. We read in 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Woah. Ok, so we all have messed up, that’s a given. This verse says that if we need to confess our sin. What does confession me? It is not simple repeating to God what you have done, but it is a sincere acknowledgement and agreement with God that what you did was wrong. When we acknowledge what we did was wrong to God, it says He will forgive us! Now listen closely here, this is the point I want to drive home with you: He will cleanse us from all unrighteousness! All! Guys God can remove every trace of sin in our lives if we simply confess to Him. We can be made totally pure. Does this mean that we should just continue to sin because we will be forgiven anyways? Absolutely not! We need to strive to live a God honoring life, but we have this little thing called a sin nature and we are bound to stumble.
Ok, so, we are probably going to mess up. Just remember next time you feel like you have stumbled in your pursuit to live your life as an offering to God. He’ll forgive you and you’ll be ready to continue serving Him.
When I start thinking that’s normally when stupid things happen so, I went to my Bible to see what God says about me messing up. We read in 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Woah. Ok, so we all have messed up, that’s a given. This verse says that if we need to confess our sin. What does confession me? It is not simple repeating to God what you have done, but it is a sincere acknowledgement and agreement with God that what you did was wrong. When we acknowledge what we did was wrong to God, it says He will forgive us! Now listen closely here, this is the point I want to drive home with you: He will cleanse us from all unrighteousness! All! Guys God can remove every trace of sin in our lives if we simply confess to Him. We can be made totally pure. Does this mean that we should just continue to sin because we will be forgiven anyways? Absolutely not! We need to strive to live a God honoring life, but we have this little thing called a sin nature and we are bound to stumble.
Ok, so, we are probably going to mess up. Just remember next time you feel like you have stumbled in your pursuit to live your life as an offering to God. He’ll forgive you and you’ll be ready to continue serving Him.
Aaron
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