Have you ever been painting a picture when you accidentally made a mistake? Maybe a wrong stroke of a paint brush, or an errant line from a pencil? Well, most artists know that these mistakes and imperfections are easily covered up and fixed. Just take a little bit of paint or a bit of the pencil and you can quickly cover up any mistake that you have made.
If something is covered, you really cannot see it, can you? It is out of your view because it has been blocked by something else. The definition of the word “covered” means “to put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to protect or conceal it.”.
Possibly you may have once spilled a drink or food on your carpet, and as a result it left a stain that just wouldn’t come out easily. In order to hide that stain from view you could put something over the top of it. Maybe you could rearrange some furniture or place a small throw rug over the discolored area and hide it from view, and it is like it never happened.
Well, this is what the Lord does with our sins, after we repent and ask for His forgiveness. He covers our sins with the blood which He shed on the cross, washing them away and remembers them no more.
Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
We have all made mistakes. We have all muddied ourselves with the sins of the world, but through Christ’s forgiveness and mercy He takes all of those wicked and sinful things which we have done, and it is like He throws a carpet over them. He forgets them, and forgives us completely, not charging us with our sins. Like it never happened.
Psalms 32:1-2 “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.”
One sin, or a thousand, Jesus is filled with enough forgiveness for the entire world. Some people may think that there is no hope for them because of all of the terrible, sinful things which they have done in their past, but Christ’s love is great enough to handle the entire sins of the world. You only need to look at the life of the Apostle Paul to realize how great His love is. A self-titled “chief of sinners,” the Apostle Paul is proof of the forgiveness of Christ. A persecutor of Christians, a destroyer of churches, yet all of those sins were forgiven. They were covered by the blood of Jesus.
Look at the Apostle Peter. He made mistakes just like everyone else. He even denied the Lord, not once, not twice, but three times, right before the crucifixion of Jesus. But you know what? Jesus forgave him.
Certainly, none of us on this Earth deserve to be in Heaven. Heaven is a perfect place free of impurities and sin, and we are not. But there is a way to get rid of those sins. Just one Way. Jesus.
1 Peter 4:8 “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.”
Great or small, few or many, your sins can be taken away. You too can receive the gift of everlasting life in the Kingdom of Heaven. You too can experience the great mercy and forgiveness that comes from the Lord of lords, and King of kings. Remember, there are no mistakes too great that the Lord cannot cover.
In Christ,
Andrew
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