Healing Grace

Christians are often good at confessing sins and notoriously bad at receiving forgiveness.

We are not permitted to nurse a sense of guilt: we must fully and completely accept and embrace God's forgiveness and love.

Guilt feeling and inferiority before God are expressions of selfishness, or self-centeredness: we give greater importance to our little sinful self than to His immense and never-ending love.

We must surrender our guilt and inferiority to Him; His goodness is greater than our badness.

We must accept His joy in loving and forgiving us.

It is a healing grace to surrender our sinfulness to His mercy.

[James Borst]