Begin
Silence, Stillness, and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Imagine
yourself cleansed, clean, fully forgiven and free, no skeletons in your
closet, nothing that anyone could ever bring against you.
That’s how it actually is
because of cross. Imagine
that!
Silence, Stillness, and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Scripture
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
Reflect
Confess. Come clean with God. Stop hiding. There’s nothing that can be hidden from Him anyway. Hiding is an adventure in missing reality.
God is faithful. God’s one way love, His unconditional covenant never to quit on us was fulfilled in Jesus’ death for the sin of the world. God made a promise and he kept it and you are on the receiving end.
God is just. All sin and evil has been judged, defeated, punished, dealt its death blow on the cross. All their captives have been set free including you.
In Jesus Christ you have been forgiven. There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)
You have been cleansed. You are clean. God views you as squeaky clean, loved, cherished, delighted in, pure, justified (Just-as-if- you never sinned at all).
Use your Imagination
As you began this
devotional imagining yourself clean before God, now do so again.
If you find this hard to imagine it simply means that you need
more practice imagining the truth about yourself.
Of course using your imagination does not mean entering into
fantasy rather your imagination is a faculty given to you by God to be
used to lift you out of the false parts of your world and into God’s
real world.
Prayer
“Blessed
is the one
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
2 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord does not count against them
and in whose spirit is no deceit.
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
2 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord does not count against them
and in whose spirit is no deceit.
3 When
I kept silent,
my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night
your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was sapped
as in the heat of summer.
my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night
your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was sapped
as in the heat of summer.
5 Then
I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess
my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave
the guilt of my sin" (Psalm 32)
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess
my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave
the guilt of my sin" (Psalm 32)
Conclude with
Silence
(2 minutes)
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