ODB: Thanksgiving Pardon
November 24, 2011
Through faith in Christ, we receive God’s pardon and escape sin’s penalty.
READ: 1 John 1:1-10
The blood of Jesus Christ [God’s] Son cleanses us from all sin. —1 John 1:7
Each year at the end of November, the President of the United States issues an official pardon for the National Thanksgiving Turkey. During this lighthearted ceremony, one president remarked: “Our guest of honor looks a little nervous. Nobody’s told him yet that I’m going to give him a pardon.” The poor turkey had a good reason to be uneasy—without an acquittal, he was doomed to be Thanksgiving dinner.
We are in a similar situation when it comes to our sin. Without God’s pardon, we’re on our way to certain demise. This condition is a direct result of our own wrongdoing. The Bible says, “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). However, we can be set free from this death sentence because God’s Son bore our sin in His body on the cross, “that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). First John 1:7 tells us that Jesus’ blood “cleanses us from all sin.”
We can accept God’s pardon for our sin and receive eternal life when we confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9). Today, consider how you will respond to God’s offer of forgiveness.
— Jennifer Benson Schuldt
Source: Our Daily Bread
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‘Today, consider how you will respond to God’s offer of forgiveness.’
It is unbelievable! It is too good to be true. Why me?!
Receive with gratefulness for those of us who know how sinful we are from inside out.
A Royal pardon is all we need and should ask for this Christmas.
Have a Blessed Christmas to all the readers.