Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.

If we start to think about what is actually sinful in our lives we may be in for a huge shock! All unrighteousness is sin! Everything that is contrary to the law of God is sin!

This gives us a considerable problem in that we cannot get over that barrier unless we have a Saviour who is able to lift us over it!

God is not just merciful and graceful, but merciful and graceful enough to overcome any sin that we have committed in our past – so long as we are willing to bring it before Him with all honesty!

Galatians 3:25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Before we accept Christ as our Saviour, we are still very much in a learning role where we are trying to understand many things; for that we do need a teacher to help us to understand things.

But when we trust in Christ, He has promised to give us the Holy Spirit to give us the understanding that we desire.

After be trust in Christ we are no longer stuck as a scholar seeking something new, but rather we grow in our own time as we learn for ourselves from the Holy Spirit. We grow from being like a scholar to being more like an undergraduate.

Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Faith in itself is not our justification but rather the faith we have will justify our lives with Christ when we sit down and truly think things through.

Sometimes we are put off by people who will mock us or will say things like “it is not real” or “it is just a bunch of words”; but if we are willing to take those words and study them through properly we will find out just how special God’s Word is!

The truth is hard to ignore when we do find it out, and by believing in that truth our lives are changed through the peace and self-assurance that God gives us; and all because Christ was willing to give His life for us.