Today has been one of those days where I have felt overwhelmed by God’s presence. All day long I have been thinking about how good God has been to me. How His grace is so amazing. His mercy so sweet and His love so great.

I feel so undeserving of His forgiveness, and yet I want to bask in it. I want to soak it all up.

How can God forgive a broken, rebellious, filthy sinner like me? I have a picture in my head of me dirty, in ragged clothes, with dirt caked on me walking into a body of water and walking out the other side spotless with new clothes on.

That is what God’s grace does for us.

It IS that easy. We complicate it. Because we are human and we expect people to pay a penance to earn our forgiveness. God isn’t like that. Nothing we could ever do could make Him forgive us any greater or any less.

He has paid the ultimate price so that we may walk in freedom. That takes action. We must choose to accept the forgiveness and walk as free men and women.

I think about a slave owner opening the gate so the slave can walk away and be free. Instead, the slave chooses to stay inside the fence. Out of fear of the unknown, out of doubt, out of rebellion. Freedom is his, but he refuses to accept it and walk out.

Dear God, help me receive your forgiveness and walk it out. Help me remember the price that you paid so that I can be free. Thank you for the blood that you shed for my sins. You are an amazing God. Amen.