You probably never heard this, but restitution has already been made. Your sins are already paid for, you are already forgiven, even before you were born. Nothing you ever do can change the love with which Christ loved you and gave Himself up for you on the cross almost 2000 years ago. He knew you before you were created. He knew all things you were to do wrong in your life, and still He was made manifest on the earth in human form and died a horible death so that your sins might be forgotten.
Nothing you ever do can change what He already did. The thing is, this will never benefit you untill you believe it. You will not receive any benefit of His actions, untill you believe it actually happened, and that He is the Truth. His Spirit witnesses in your heart that this is the Truth, and is ready to change the effect the world has had on you since you were born.
We've all been affected by the world, and the law of this world. This world functions by law, not necessarily written law, but it's governed by law, to which you need to subscribe in order to survive. Law of morality, law of society, law of religiocity, law of friendships, law of business, law of etiquette etc. There is a constant expectation of you to conform to behaviour that is adopted by every person in that particular group who subscribes to that set of norms. If you fail to conform, you are confronted with a definite sanction against you, whether it be social sanction, like people shunning you for a while, or confrontation, or even total rejection of your person.
That is the way the world works. We constantly make the erroneous assumption that it works the same way with God. It simply doesn't. Who do you know other than Christ, that would give himself up for you, pay all your debts, knowing beforehand that you would deny him and turn against him? Who do you know that keeps on loving you without condition, even though you may never respond to that love? The truth is no one. No person, no matter how lovable he is, will be like that in his own character.
Christ loves you with an undying love. He does not expect anything back. All He wants is for you to know how He feels about you. He wants you to thoroughly understand how much He loves you, how much He wants to bless you, and how much He wants to fulfill your every desire. He knows you in and out. He doesn't judge your wrongs, that why He was judged for the world on the cross in the first place. He knows your every liking, because He put it there. All He wants is that you know how much He loves you. You do not know the complete picture. The image you have of Christ is broken and deceitful. He wants to restore your image of His character, so you may realise that He is just there to love you and bless you.
The only reason why people around the world suffer, is because they do not know how much He loves them. The only reason why there is suffering, is because His love is not made manifest by people towards other people. He can not be seen, other than be seen in us. If we know Him, people can see Him in us. He can not help the world other than through us. If we yield to Him, He can rule out all the terrible things happening in the world around us. When you cry, He cries with you, unable to help you until you yield to Him, and His love.
God is sovereign over us. That is the truth, but that is not the reality. When we yield to the Truth, God can be sovereign in reality in our lives. That makes God to be able to rule through us on the earth. Before He made man He said: Let us make man in our image, and let them have dominion. We have the dominion. He will never usurp our authority in earth, yet we yield our members to evil and darkness and blame God for the result.
God forgave your every wrong. He loves you without reserve. Yield to His love, receive what Christ did on the cross for you, and taste and see that the Lord is good! Your live will never be the same. You will only experience the bliss of knowing Him, and being associated with Him. In knowing Him, you are hidden from evil, and inaccesible to danger. God is love. Love never fails!
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