Number 83: November 17, 2006



The key to a successful Christian life is maintaining fellowship with our heavenly Father. We endeavor to build this relationship with our heavenly Father by learning and doing His will. We find His will in His Word. As we consider what Christ went through on our behalf, we will have the stamina and energy needed to do what God wants us to do each day.



Hebrews 12:1-3:

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.



Basking in the knowledge of sin is not healthy, seeking God’s forgiveness is; for we all sin.



I John 1:5-9:

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.



When we fail to maintain our relationship with our heavenly Father, we break fellowship with Him in that area of our lives; we sin. God has forgiveness immediately available. When we confess our sin, he forgives and forgets and no longer holds us accountable because Jesus Christ paid the price for all the sins of mankind once and forever.



I John 2:1 and 2:

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.



What is amazing is that it seems the Christian world on earth wants to continue to remember sin and remind us constantly of it. Let’s be like God and forgive and forget and move on because the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are still too few. We need all the helpers we can get.