Forgiveness and Healing Pt. I

Godly Forgiveness

Psalm 130:3-4
³If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
⁴But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.

I think that we have lost the concept of biblical fear in our modern world. In this particular passage fear has nothing to do with being afraid, or terrified. In this particular context fear is an alternate term for, as my Pentateuch professor stated it in college, "reverential awe." If one did a word study on this particular word, some alternate phrases come up such as honored, worshipped, trusted or served. Because of the mercy the Lord shows us, even through our blatant disregard for his precepts, this is why he is to be "feared" because of his goodness.

The psalmist raises a great point here. In a world where there is little forgiveness, if the Lord truly did keep a record of our sins…there would be no hope. The peace that the Lord offers us through redemption is nothing but amazing. There is nothing that we can do that will make him love us any less. NOTHING. So why do think that at or moments of weakness and temptation, that we have been catapulted out of the fold of God into a place where he will not hold us, love us and redeem us?

I pray that this post finds you in you own moments of trials, tribulations, or weakness, and brings you comfort. We are not perfect by any means, but God, in his infinite mercy, sees us that way. Spotless, if we allow him to enter our lives.


In nomine Patris et filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Go under the mercy. Sleep, under the protection.