Can you imagine waking up today having had a restless night with condemning thoughts and then going through the day having doubts about your abilities and who you are?
Of course you can.
Some reading this today will have woken in the night thinking of that accusation they are facing. Some are in the middle of it right now, they face uncertain futures, fingers are being pointed and stones are being thrown for the accuser is at work. Others don’t need enemies to do this for their greatest enemy is in their own mind.
Can you imagine in all of that trying to be the best you can be for others, yourself and for God?
I’ve got some news!
“For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Hebrews 9 v 24-26)
Christ is in heaven appearing for you in God’s presence. He is doing that now.
When God looks at you, when He investigates you, what does he find? It is not what your accuser wants you to know.
What people find is immaterial. What your enemies find matters not. Even what you may find in your self-condemnatory life does not count. It is what HE finds that counts.
No you don’t need another cross. No you don’t need another sacrifice.
If we lived our life on what He sees and what He finds knowing that Christ is always appearing before God for us and not what we know and what the accuser says then maybe we will live better and perhaps the many decisions of life will be easier.
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