So many times as Christians we are told we need to search
our hearts for sin before we can worship God or before He will acknowledge
anything we ask of Him. I know personally when I was told I needed to search my
heart before I could ask for God’s help I’d always feel unworthy of asking
anything from Him so I would only say, “Lord cleanse me and make me right in
your eyes”, and that would be the end of my prayer! The more I looked at myself
and searched for anything good, the more unrighteous I felt and the more I felt
as if I needed to, “get myself right with God”. But as I began to mature in
years and in the Word, the more I began to ACCEPT that according to Romans 3:4
which says, “All are justified and
made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His
grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is
[provided] in Christ Jesus", that I was already right in the eyes of God. The more I realize I was RIGHT in His eyes because
of my BELIEF IN HIM, the more I accepted that I could ask anything of Him without reminiscing about my sins; basically the less sin conscious I became and the more CHRIST CONSCIOUS I began
to live!
As Christians sometimes we are so focused on our sins and
trying to live right that we forget to focus on Christ and what He has already
done for us; we become so sin conscious that we forget to become CHRIST CONSCIOUS!
The Bible tells us in Psalms 103:12, that God has forgiven our sins as far as
the east is from the west, and in Micah 7:18, that He has thrown our sins into
the sea of forgetfulness. So we must ask ourselves, if God Himself can forget
about our sins and throw them away then why do we remind ourselves of them on a
regular basis? I know many of you may be saying, “reminding yourself of your of
sins keeps you humble, it reminds you that you need God and that you are a
sinner who need and depend on Him.” Well I’m not sure about you, but I’m
reminded every day that I live in this fallen world and that, as the old song
says, I need thee every hour. If I
need to constantly think about my sins to remind me of this, then I need to
recheck my faith in Him and why I decided to believe on Him in the first place.
I received SALVATION because I was a sinner and RECEIVING HIM CLEANSED ME OF MY
SINS; so if I’m going to keep reminding myself of my sins why did I need to
accept Christ in the first place?
The 7th chapter of Luke tells us the story of the
women with the alabaster box of oil. The Bible tells us this woman was a
sinner, but it also tells us that when she fell to Jesus’s feet to worship Him,
the words which came out of His mouth were, “Your sins are forgiven”; The Bible
didn’t say, Jesus told her to search her heart, or tell her to look at how much
she needs Him before He could forgive her; just because of her FAITH ALONE IN
HIM, He said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” He didn’t try to make her sin
conscious He knew by her faith that she was all CHRIST CONSCIOUS!
As I close, think about this! Do you know anyone who cleans
himself before he takes a bath? I know I don’t, so why do so many Christians
and unbelievers try to “get themselves right before they go to the only one who
can make them righteous? The Word of God says, “Come as you are”! (And this scripture
is not talking about clothes, it is talking about your heart).All you have to
do is ACCEPT CHRIST AND HE WILL CLEANSE YOU ALL BY HIMSELF. He doesn’t need you
to remind Him of your sins, and I’m sure you don’t need to be reminded of them
either. You know what you have done and guess what? So does He! BECOME CHRIST
CONSCIOUS and ACCEPT HIS GRACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS and leave your sins in the sea
of forgetfulness, GOD ALREADY HAS!
Forever In His GRACE!
Toinette Neube
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