| EXCHANGE OF IDEAS

 

 

Ashamed by the so many mistakes (sins) committed, and the permanence of every bad stain that seems not to go away, every day we fall, and when 
once we get up, we make the same mistake again consciously, looking for something more, searching for a little pleasure that can fill the emptiness and loneliness inside, something to satisfy the soul, spirit, and flesh within. But everything turns out to be the destruction of the soul itself, the certain depression of the temple of God.

 

As once I fell, I was raised up by the Spirit of Jesus, by the certainty of His forgiveness, by the knowledge of His grand love. Filled by His grace, by the wonders of His mercy, and by His precious acceptance, I am accepted just as I am. Just as I am . . . such a deceitful and stained being as I, who always betrays His forgiveness. . . . Who can understand? I don’t completely understand myself.

 

It must be a decision to walk on the right way; to keep myself on behalf of Jesus; to not look behind; to keep my eyes, my mind, my whole soul on Jesus and His love. It is a decision! We need His help; we need so much from God every day—not only the knowledge of His love, but His strength to overcome evil with goodness, to fill every empty space and every need from Him, to put the desires of the flesh away and deny ourselves, to purify our minds every day by His Word, and to listen quietly to His voice.

 

But even now, just as we are, He accepts us and forgives. He has mercy. Now He erases, now He throws every burden to the sea and decides to start a brand-new day, a brand-new way. It is now when He’s giving us a new opportunity to know Him, to be close to Him, to be who we must be—simply His children who praise Him.

 

We are blessed. Let’s call on His name—and believe. Do not look at the stain; do not look at the dark hole, or the missteps, or sad mistakes. Just look at His love, look at His eyes; focus on His love and feel it inside. He looked for your soul and now you feel repented, and He’s washing you with His blood and making you clean every day.

 

From now on, we will seek first for His kingdom; we will find it and hold on to it and share it with every other soul. That’s the way that, being washed by His blood, we will be saved.

 

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:9-11).