Forgiven

David wrote in the Psalms, (and I paraphrase,) 'It is amazing to be forgiven.  How happy you are when you know all your errors and short comings are not held against you.'  I agree completely.  If you disagree, you need more than a head check.

Some people are forgiven and they are fixated on their shame and failure.  They go over it and over it again trying to find the 'spot' they took the wrong turn and ensure it never happens again.  They, let me say rather we are full of pride.  We appreciate the second chance, but we want to be sure this NEVER happens to us again.  We do not like to be rescued, we would rather be rescuers.  We would never be seen to want, but for some ironic reason we are riddled with need and are foolish, no stupid enough to act like we are whole.  And because we say we are fine, our shame and failure remains.

Others are forgiven and they revel in it.  They walk about believing their freedom and their behaviour shows it.  They live for that sense of being forgiven.  They may fall, but their focus is on the One who forgives all.  So they easily take His hand when they call out to Him.  They get back up, dust off and keep looking forward.  They do not continue to do wrong to enjoy the 'rush' of being pardoned.  Forgiveness is not a license to break the law.  Their errors hurt too.  Like all of us they sow (winds) and reap (whirlwinds) - their wrong doing has consequences.  But they are full of wrong, they fall, but they know to call for help, they are pardoned and they live as released debtors:  in revelry.

Most of us swing in between these two, and pray that some day we may live more evenly.  All have sinned and offended the Creator of the world.  It may not seem or sound fair, but He made it.  It's His lot, we play by His rules.  So we ought to get right by Him.  The fun part is He is willing to make us right, to forget our every fault that we may stand just as if we never did wrong if we realise, submit, ask and then follow Him.  How is that not Amazing Grace?