Cleansed

"What He sees is YOU."

GOD’S NOT looking for sin. He’s not looking at you and seeing what you’ve done wrong. He doesn’t see sin in you when you’re forgiven. We see sin. We remember and rehearse our past sins. God erased all of them. What He sees is YOU. Your talents. Your interests. Your possibilities. Everything you like or even dislike.

One day, God spoke to me about a tree, one I’ve looked at for many years. He repeated to me a funny (Greg Mohr term) that I’d said about the tree. No one knows of it. No one. Nor is it really that important, except that God repeated it to me, and we laughed together. God saw me, He remembered the tree, and He wanted me to know it was valuable to Him. I am valuable to Him.

We know Jesus died for our salvation and forgives our sins. We know, in that, they are erased. Theology made by human reasoning has incorrect ideas about what happened to Him on the cross, but all in the church must believe salvation, through the cross and the Resurrection, cleansed the heart of sin, and we are saved. What happens, then, in the Spirit, in our spirit man, is, again, not completely understood by many. But what I mean to say here is that from that moment on, there is no sin in us in God’s eyes.

We figure we are still sinning (making mistakes), and so it’s a continual forgiving process. Though we do sin, no man is perfect except Jesus (which is the point of salvation), the Spirit of God lives in us now. We are connected to God intimately, and forgiveness is constant. Just say, “I’m sorry,” and know it’s done. His love is the same. His mercy everlasting. And then, don’t rehearse it anymore.

The idea we must see ourselves as perpetually under sin is wrong. God is holy. His holiness is not affected by sin. Sin is cleansed by His holiness. Think of Jesus on the cross. John the Baptizer said He is filled with the Spirit without measure (John 3:34), meaning He has all of the Presence of God in Him and upon Him. We know also that He is Christ, which means “Anointed One.” The Spirit of God is the anointing that makes Jesus anointed. He is why Jesus is holy, why Jesus lived without sin. Though He had the choice to obey, though sin was present around Him in others, God in Him and upon Him kept Him holy. And His holiness on the cross fulfilled the words of Isaiah 53:4.

“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:” (Isaiah 53:4)

The word “borne” means to lift up. The word “carried” means to carry, as a burden. But see this Truth through the eyes of the Spirit. There is no weight too heavy for God. No physical weight, mental weight, or spiritual weight. Nothing is beyond Him. So when Jesus became the Lamb of God, it was as Christ, stronger than all sin. He suffered physically. He suffered mentally, although not at the level many have stated. God protected Him (John 14:27). The Life in Him destroyed the devil, destroyed the works of the devil, abolished death, and erased sin in mankind.

So that God could be with us, in us, and upon us. So that we could be who we are, His beautiful people. Individuals He adores. Something that matters to Him so much that He planned before time, before sin ever came into this world, to save us by dying on the cross.

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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