Today is Holy Cross Day
Today's readings are Psalm 38:6-16, 2 Chronicles 33:1-25, and Colossians 1:24-2:7.
As a pastor I occasionally talk to someone who thinks he has sinned in such a way that Jesus cannot forgive him. These people think their repentance is useless because they are too bad to be saved from sin.
Compare your life to that of Manasseh, king of Judah. He sacrificed his own children to pagan gods. He established shrines for false worship and made countless people deny faith in the true God. What was the result? Amid all this destruction he was moved to repentance. He prayed that God would forgive him and he received that forgiveness, becoming a good king.
What is there that our Lord will not forgive as we humble ourselves in repentance, asking that Jesus, who has taken our sins upon himself, should forgive us? There is no sin too great for the mercy of God in Christ.
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