I haven't written for a couple of days, but no worries I haven't forgotten about this blog!
God has been moving in the lives of so many people. It encourages me so much, as I hope it encourages you.
For this post, I decided to post a short story that I absolutely love! It's about God's great forgiveness (hence the title!) I actually posted it in another blog, but I decided that I love the story so much that I will revisit it.
I got this story from a book I read a long time ago.
The story is about a girl who grew up loving and serving God. However, as she grew up some devastating things came her way and she completely turned her back on the Lord, her friends, and her family.
She was dealing with some HEAVY stuff. Literally, anything bad that you could possibly think of, this girl was doing or dealing with.
She ended up having to get sent away to an old woman's house because she had nowhere to go, and was expecting a child. She hated going because she felt like such failure. She felt like her life wasn't worth anything. That she wasn't worth anything.
She gave the older woman a hard time at first, but the older woman loved Christ more than anything, and actually had a very similar testimony. She had patience with her and began to love her back to life.
The older woman ended up taking the younger one to the beach one morning. She told her to write every single sin she had ever committed in the sand right by the shoreline.
The younger woman agreed, and began to bend down and write down every single bad thing she had ever done. As she was writing in the sand, she began to weep. She was crying loudly as she remembered everything that had ever happened to her in her life.
Then, all of the sudden, the tide came in and completely washed every single thing away.
The younger girl, with tears in her eyes, looked up and asked "I didn't even finish! The tide took them all away."
The older woman looked down at her and said with a smile "That's just like my Jesus. He will take every single one of your sins away if you ask him for his forgiveness. They won't even be there anymore. His love washes us clean."
(That was a summary because I could not exactly remember everything!)
This is such a simple story, but it is one of my all time favorites.
God loves you no matter what you have done. He loves you, he loves you, he loves you!
Luke 5:20
When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
We are forgiven in him today.
I love how he calls us friend.
How great is it that we are a friend of the King?
Let's live in his freedom!
Blessings forever,
LB Star
PS.
This is such an incredible song by Laura Hackett. It's super powerful song! Listen to it! (:
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