Can God Forgive Everything?

Are you really sorry when you sin or you just can’t wait to do it again tomorrow? God cannot be deceived! We deceive ourselves if we manage to live a lie.
Picture this: imagine you invite your friend over for dinner, he or she is a friend you know (or thought you knew), however, after the dinner is over and your friend is on his way out, you notice that he has stolen something from your house. With all the benefits of the doubt the fact is obvious and your friend also admits that it is true, he/she tried to steal that certain object and apologies to the heavens and back. You, as an understanding friend, forgive and forget, therefore, the next month you invite that friend over for lunch. Unfortunately… the same thing happens, your friend trying to steal something but you see him, he deeply apologies again saying how sorry he/she is; you can hardly believe it…but well, that’s it!

Would you invite that friend over in your house again? If you do, and you catch him again, do you believe that he is sorry when he says that? Maybe he is sorry that you caught him…not that he has stolen again.
This is one example that I want to use to emphasize the fact that we as people, can most of the times see when someone tries to deceive to betray us; yet there are so many that believe they can get away with God.

Thinking "well, I will do this tonight and tomorrow I will ask God to forgive me so things will be all right". Over and over, lying, living in sexual immorality or any other sin actually shows that you are not really sorry, or that you don’t really believe in God. In other words you play with your own life.

Will God turn a blind eye when He – more than any human being- sees that you are lying? No, HE won’t.

There is a difference to sin because of lack of vigilance, willing to get back on track as soon as you realized you have sinned and falling in sin and staying there, like a pig in its mud... thinking that God will forgive.

David, a great king of Israel is a good example of the first situation. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba (also having premeditated murdering her husband), David repented for his sin as soon as his eyes were open. These are his words towards God:

"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will turn back to you.

Save me from blood guilt, O God, the God who saves me, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Psalm 51

God forgives, but if you willingly repeat the same sin tomorrow over and over again, you are in a dangerous position, no one can deceive God! You are only deceiving yourself.

It is this heart attitude difference, if before knowing God you liked sin, now your heart brakes when sin occurs, you might feel trapped and you hate it. You feel that you don’t have the power to escape, but God does have all the power! He will deliver you!

Yes God will forgive ALL your sin, no matter how terrible, but be honest with God, that's all it takes, a sincere heart.

By Claudia Miclaus
Published: 7/4/2008