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A Personal Pardon, May 8
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions.
Psalm 51:1
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We should remember that all make mistakes; even men and women
who have had years of experience sometimes err; but God does not cast
them off because of their errors; to every erring son and daughter of
Adam He gives the privilege of another trial.
Jesus loves to have us come to Him just as we are, sinful, helpless,
dependent. We may come with all our weakness, our folly, our sinful-
ness, and fall at His feet in penitence. It is His glory to encircle us in
the arms of His love, and to bind up our wounds, to cleanse us from all
impurity.
Here is where thousands fail: they do not believe that Jesus pardons
them personally, individually. They do not take God at His word. It
is the privilege of all who comply with the conditions to know for
themselves that pardon is freely extended for every sin. Put away the
suspicion that God’s promises are not meant for you. They are for every
repentant transgressor. Strength and grace have been provided through
Christ to be brought by ministering angels to every believing soul. None
are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in
Jesus, who died for them. He is waiting to strip them of their garments
stained and polluted with sin, and to put upon them the white robes of
righteousness; He bids them live and not die....
Can you believe that when the poor sinner longs to return, longs to
forsake his sins, the Lord sternly withholds him from coming to His feet
in repentance? Away with such thoughts! Nothing can hurt your own
soul more than to entertain such a conception of our heavenly Father....
Come with your whole heart to Jesus, and you may claim His blessing.
He who through His own atonement provided for man an infinite
fund of moral power will not fail to employ this power in their behalf.
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