Thirsty Thursday

Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD. ~ Psalm 25:7

When I first read this verse my heart sorta skipped a beat. I know there isn't a wasted word in the Bible, but some seem more factual and some really connect. When I read these words, they really connected with me. I can recall so many "sins of my youth", some of which make me blush now just thinking about them. I told you last week that I was sorta a lush in college, but that really started early in high school and lead to my arrest for possession of alcohol by a minor my senior year. I snuck out of my parents house, crossed state lines when I was supposed to be at a friends home just around the corner, smoked cigarettes (and a couple of them smelled sorta funny. . .) swore like a sailor, and lived with 2 different guys before I was married (gasp. . .) so, you can safely assume that the white wedding dress was a bit of stretch for me. Alas, because my mother reads this and because this is not t.m.i. Tuesday, this will conclude the airing of the dirty laundry portion of my post and I will just skip to my concluding point.

I am forgiven. Maybe not by some of the people I offended along the way, and possibly not by my parents, but by whom it counts, I AM FORGIVEN. God sees me according to His love, which is perfect, and clean, and pure, and GOOD. So, even though I have never been worthy of it, I am forgiven.

"Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him. ~Psalm 32:1,2

If you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and that He died on a cross and rose again, your "youthful" sins, or the ones you just committed five minutes ago, are forgiven too!

Drink that in!