We are all sinners. "For there is no difference; for ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)
No one can live up to what God created us to be, we all fall short of His glory. We cannot save ourselves because as sinners we can never meet God's requirements. Our only hope is faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus sent His Only Begotten Son to die for our sins, the sins of the world...past, present and future.
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. (Psalm 103:12)
He removes our sins completely. He will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. He will cast our sins into the depths of the sea. (Micah 7:19)
We are to have a reverential fear of God, not a tormenting fear.
We do not have to fear the past, present or future, for we are experiencing His love, and this love is being perfected (matured, completed) in us day by day.
Our sins have been judged already at the Cross, and they will never be brought against us again! "We are as He is in this world." (1 John 4:17) "We know that we shall be like Him when he returns." (1 John 3:1-2)
We are identified with Christ as members of His body and the Father deals with us as He deals with His own beloved Son.
How then, can we ever be afraid?
We don't have to be afraid of the future because our sins were judged in Christ when He died on the Cross.
We don't have to be afraid of the past because "He first loved us." It wasn't that we loved Him, but that He loved us. (1 John 4:10)
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, MUCH MORE having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. (Romans 5:10)
If God loved us when we were outside the family, disobeying Him, how MUCH MORE does He love us now that we are His children?
What amazing love!!
We don't have to fear the present because "perfect love casts out fear" there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. (1 John 4:18)
As we grow in His love, we cease to be fearful of what He will do. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7) And, we have received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which we cry out, Abba Father! (Romans 8:15)
God wants us to live in an atmosphere of love and confidence, not fear and torment.
He helps us grow not only in grace and knowledge, but also in our love for Him.
Our lives are suppose to be a "daily" experience of growing in His love, which involves coming to know Him, our Heavenly Father in a MUCH deeper way as we grow in love.
Our love is being perfected daily, and that should give us confidence toward Him.
Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, distress, or persecution or famine, or nakedness, peril, or sword? In all these things we are overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. I'm convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principilities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:33-39)
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