Case Closed~

There's the time in first grade when wanting what wasn't mine led me straight to the desk of the little girl in front of me and her pretty pink mirror and I stole.

There's the time in middle school when wanting to be like everyone else led me straight to the center of who I wasn't and I lied.

There's the time in high school when wanting to be independent and "right" led me straight into battles with my mother and I dishonored.

There's the time in my marriage when wanting to be ALL to my husband led me straight into disappointment and bitterness and I resented.

Then there's all the times in between...before and after.....

Stacks and stacks of sins. Enough to reach Heaven.

But when they do, they don't mean a thing.

When God is handed all of this evidence against me,
He simply hands it all over to Jesus
who,
takes one look at it and declares it to be:

NOT RELEVANT

You see.....

There's the time when wanting to be forgiven of my sins, to be clean and righteous and made whole, led me straight to Jesus and

I confessed (my sins)

I received (His mercy and grace)

and

I was declared:

NOT GUILTY.



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Case closed~

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ~ 1 John 1:9

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