Sin comes with a lot of baggage, and one particular aspect of baggage it carries, is the way that it makes you feel. I’m not talking about the feeling you have when you are in the act of committing sin, but I’m talking about the feeling that comes after. When you look back at what you have done and just feel dirty. Well, that’s at least how I feel. I don’t know about you, but sometimes when I look back I think “Wow my perfect God wants nothing to do with me; Look at what I have done AGAIN.” That’s the feeling I’m talking about, and that’s the feeling that I absolutely hate.
There are many reasons as to why I loathe having these feelings, but it is mainly because that is not how God works at all.
You see, before I was born, or even thought of God already knew me. He knew my name, He knew where I would end up, and He knew every single sin that I would ever commit. While knowing how many times I would let Him down and how many times I would turn my back away from Him, HE STILL CHOSE TO LOVE ME. Me. A girl who constantly runs away from Him. A girl who struggles with the things of the world.
God’s grace never runs out. He still loves us in the midst of our filth. He still loves us under any circumstance. And that is how my perfect God works.
1 John 2:12 “ I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His name.”
