NOTHING IS WORSE than the memory of a mistake…

It is like a haunting specter, hovering over your shoulder, constantly whispering one word in your ear: “Shame.”  You find it hard to laugh, to hope, to dream.  You know what you did.  You know the pain you have caused.  You cannot believe what you have allowed yourself to become.

Well, God has promised to set us free from our past and allow us to say, “I am JUST-IF-I’D NEVER SINNED!”  Read Romans 3 and 4 and focus on this blessing and the two essentials that make it possible.  (Dan Winkler)

“But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law” (Romans 3:21-31).

Mike Benson