many who profess to be Yours
treat You and Your blood cheaply
and carelessly. None of us realize
the depth and extent of Your sacrifice
for us or how completely our debt
has been paid by it, but to assume
that we can sin and then skip merrily
into Your Presence and claim Your
forgiveness with hardly a thought is
a sacrilege and a tragedy.
basis of repentance. Repentance means that the person is forsaking the sin and taking a
whole new direction of mind and heart. When there is repentance, the blood of My son can
cleanse from all sin.
Read again of the Old Testament sacrifices; they are there for your help and
understanding. Every day the priests were occupied with the killing of animals, draining the
blood, dividing the animal, and offering it to Me. People bringing sacrifices had to slay the
animal and drain the blood and divide the animal. They were covered with blood. That blood
stayed on them as they returned to their homes. They could never escape the realization that
blood was required to pay for their sins, and it was repeated over and over and over. Multiply
that scene by millions, all the multitude of Israel bringing their sacrifices to the altar. There was
blood everywhere. Even so, the scene had to be continually repeated. Then came My Son,
and His one sacrifice of His life and blood was ALL that was needed for eternity past and future
to pay for the sins of all mankind.
Is it because you didn't see it with you own eyes that you treat His sacrifice with such
contempt, as though it were a small thing? The blood of My Son is the most powerful force in
the universe and was spilled for you so that your can receive the life it brings. It still brings life;
it still brings deliverance; it still brings healing, and it still brings forgiveness. Dare not to think
that can you treat it as insignificant or cheaply obtained. I ask for your life in return, given over
to Me as a sweet-smelling sacrifice of obedience and praise.
I love you with an everlasting love, and I have proven it. I plan for your welfare and your
future, and I give you hope. I also am a holy God, Who will not be mocked or scorned. Do not
believe that because there seems to be no repercussions for these actions that I do not know
or care. I wait to bring judgment that all may have opportunity to repent and My church may be
made complete. Then the day will arrive, and those who are truly Mine will be separated from
those who live for themselves, and everlasting reward and punishment will be irrevocably
executed. It is My desire that you be with Me; choose for yourself your way or Mine.
Jeremiah 31:3; Jeremiah 29:11; Psalm 50:16-23; 2 Peter 3:9
Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 8:1
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