The Path to Forgiveness is Paved with Love

“By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for.” Proverbs 16:6

Forgiveness. Everyone wants it. Most people suppress their maddening need of it. But there it is, the very idea of it taunting us. Can it be? I think we feel our need of forgiveness more than usual these days. Now it’s one infraction and you’re done, your entire life cancelled. Is there really such a thing as forgiveness? Reconciliation? Restoration? Glory to God in heaven, there is.

But it wasn’t cheap. It was hard won. It took the blood of the only perfect person who ever lived to buy it. He was murdered while still a young man in the flower of life. His only crime was saying who he was and where he came from. For this loving man came from heaven. Love sent him to suffer our cosmic punishment, to die in our place—which he did, most gladly, for us.

Whether you believe Jesus is real or not changes nothing. He is real. He really lived, really died, and really rose again. There is real forgiveness, full and free, from God in heaven, today. Salvation exists. And it was bought with love, very much love. God’s own love and loyalty to his undeserving creatures. That’s us. Wrath is the judgment we deserve; love opened the way of escape. Fly you fools to Christ today.