Fabulous Friday

Hurray today is Friday, the end of the work week well atleast for some of us. What makes today (Friday) such a good day for everyone? Is it because this is the last day before we get two days off? Is it because we get a paycheck? What if I told you that your Friday, everyday could be a great day, would you want to know how? Have you ever tried to enjoy something with guilt/conviction in the back of your mind? You can't, it's impossible. What if I told you that you can live the rest of your life without the guilt and shame of your sins, would you take that and start enjoying your days? Well your in luck because you have a God that is in the business of forgiving. This was all brought up by a conversation I had with a buddy yestarday. He did something that brought him extreme guilt and he just felt bad because he knew he shouldn't have done that. He asked God for forgiveness but he was still carrying the guilt and shame with him. Anyone in that boat? Have you asked God for forgiveness but still carry the guilt and shame with you?
First things first, we all sin.(Romans 3:23) So don't beat yourself up because no one is perfect, if you haven't sinned please tell me I want to meet you, you should be righting this not me:) This doesn't give us the right to keep sinning but it just helps to know that no one is perfect. This next part is the most important part to having a great day, we have to release the guilt and shame of our sins. If God can do it, why can't we? Isaiah 43:25 - I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remember your sins no more. We see here that God is telling Israel, through Isaiah that he will forgive their sins and remember them no more. The crazy thing is he's telling this to a group of people the he rescued and they still constantly reject him and turn from his ways. If he can do this for them then he can and will do it for us!
So are you ready to have a fabulous Friday, I am. My prayer for today is that we all can have this mentallity that our sins are forgiven and that God isn't standing over us with a big check list and is going to remind you of all the bad stuff you did. Also I pray that if there is anything in our lives that we need forgiveness for that we wouldn't hesitate to give it to God. THERE IS NOTHING TO BIG OR TO SMALL FOR GOD TO FORGIVE YOU OF!!! So I'll close with two things. The first is that just because we know this, it isn't ok for us to just keep sinning. We still need to try our best to live righteous and do our best to avoid sin. Second is extremely important, now that we know that we are forgiven now it's our turn to forgive others. If God forgives you then we need to forgive others.