"I Am Beyond God's Grace!" (Colossians 2:13-14)

I was watching a movie where the main character was struggling with his past sins. Looking at his friend, he declared, “I am beyond God’s grace.”

The comment resonated with me because I have felt this despair. I have committed many sins. I have suffered the repercussions and bear the shameful scars. There have been times that I thought that what I have done is beyond God’s grace to forgive.

Thanks be to God that He has forgiven me of my sins. And when He saved me, He saved me with the knowledge of all my sins, past, present, and future. I can scarcely comprehend how He can do this, much less, why? If someone had hurt me and I had forgiven him, would I continue to forgive him if I knew that He would do a similar or worse hurt to me in the near future? No, I don’t think I could. But God can and He does.

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:13-14 (ESV)

Jesus Christ forgave all my sins by taking the punishment of these sins upon His own Body, broken and nailed upon the Cross. He bore it all and God raised Him from the dead as proof that my record of debt has been canceled. I am ashamed of my past sins and I hate that I continue to sin. But I cling to the promise that God has given me and know that for anyone who confesses and repents of their sins and places their trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they will receive eternal salvation.

And once they do, no sin they have ever committed will place them beyond God’s grace.

I believe that and trust God’s Word.

Do you?

Love and trust the Lord; seek His will in your life.