The Crosss is Enough 4
I hope you have been thinking about how much we have been given through the cross and reading Isaiah chapter 53 daily with me. As I continue to think about the cross and what Jesus went through, I am overwhelmed with gratitude.
And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
Isaiah 53:9 - 10 Amplified
Jesus was treated like a criminal even though He had done nothing wrong. He suffered for us because He knew we could not pay the price of atonement required for our sin. Under the Old Testament law blood had to be shed to cover sin. Jesus came to fulfill that requirement for all mankind.
The part that says "when you and He make His life an offering for sin" keeps jumping off the page at me. When we give our life to Christ and ask God to forgive our sins, we are making His life an offering for our sin. In that moment, we are instantly cleaned, healed, spotless and guilt free in the eyes of God. All shame is gone and there is never any condemnation because Jesus does not just remove our sin, He takes with it all traces of its presence which means the guilt is gone as well.
We are no longer guilty. No accusations can stand against us because Jesus took them for us. There is no place for shame anymore.
Accepting this truth is one of the toughest things I've had to learn. You see, I would ask God to forgive me but then I would turn around and beat myself up for several days or weeks. I would hold on to guilt over my sins and think that there was no way God could use me to help others because I was so flawed.
When my thoughts thoughts would try to condemn me for the things I had done wrong, I would literally have to say out loud, "No, Jesus took care of that." Initially my feelings would try to argue that I needed to do something to make up for my sin but the more I refused to give in to them the weaker they became.
Romans 8:1 says there is "now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." God does not condemn us for our sins and if God is not holding our sin against us then why should we?
Jesus removed our guilt when He carried away our sin.
The cross is enough to remove the weight of our sin and shame.
Heidirn
And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
Isaiah 53:9 - 10 Amplified
Jesus was treated like a criminal even though He had done nothing wrong. He suffered for us because He knew we could not pay the price of atonement required for our sin. Under the Old Testament law blood had to be shed to cover sin. Jesus came to fulfill that requirement for all mankind.
The part that says "when you and He make His life an offering for sin" keeps jumping off the page at me. When we give our life to Christ and ask God to forgive our sins, we are making His life an offering for our sin. In that moment, we are instantly cleaned, healed, spotless and guilt free in the eyes of God. All shame is gone and there is never any condemnation because Jesus does not just remove our sin, He takes with it all traces of its presence which means the guilt is gone as well.
We are no longer guilty. No accusations can stand against us because Jesus took them for us. There is no place for shame anymore.
Accepting this truth is one of the toughest things I've had to learn. You see, I would ask God to forgive me but then I would turn around and beat myself up for several days or weeks. I would hold on to guilt over my sins and think that there was no way God could use me to help others because I was so flawed.
When my thoughts thoughts would try to condemn me for the things I had done wrong, I would literally have to say out loud, "No, Jesus took care of that." Initially my feelings would try to argue that I needed to do something to make up for my sin but the more I refused to give in to them the weaker they became.
Romans 8:1 says there is "now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." God does not condemn us for our sins and if God is not holding our sin against us then why should we?
Jesus removed our guilt when He carried away our sin.
The cross is enough to remove the weight of our sin and shame.
Heidirn
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