Meditate On
Your Debt Has Been Paid
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest
by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through
the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God,
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our
hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10:19–22
For decades upon decades, God has been portrayed as an
angry God by the devil, and unfortunately, many Bible teachers have unwittingly
helped him by painting a picture of a wrathful God. This depiction of God is an
error. We are now under the new covenant, and you will not be able to find a
single New Testament scripture that says God is angry with believers because of
their sins. You would have to go into the Old Testament to look for verses that
speak of God’s anger at the sins of His people.
Does God not being angry with you mean that there is no
place for God’s correction in our lives? Is there correction and wise guidance
that come by the Word of God in the new covenant of grace? Absolutely. But as
for His anger toward you and your sins, all that has been settled at the cross.
I guarantee you, when you come into Jesus’ sweet presence with all your
challenges, failings, and struggles, He is not going to roar at you. He is
going to love you into wholeness and set you on a trajectory of freedom from all
your fears, guilt, and addictions. Jesus is the end of all your struggles!
Because God’s perfect love is the answer to overcoming
the struggles in your life, the devil is doing everything he can to alienate
and cut you off from this love. He knows that as long as the debt of sin is on
your conscience, you will avoid God because you think that God is mad at you.
The beautiful thing about Jesus is that He not only paid
the sin debt of your entire life, He overpaid it. Unlike the high priests of
the Old Testament, He didn’t offer the blood of bulls and goats to pay for your
sins. This High Priest paid for your sins with His own perfect and sinless
blood. God didn’t go soft on sin under grace! No way. He offered His only
begotten Son, Jesus, who is an absolute overpayment for your sins.
BLESSINGS
JOSEPH PRINCE
