"I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance, let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted. And your first father sinned, and your mediators have transgressed against Me. Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; I will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to the reproaches." (Isaiah 43:25-28).
In any court of law, evidence must be provided that one may be convicted or acquitted, otherwise there is no trial. How then are we able to escape conviction, is it with works, a penitent heart, or sacrifice? No, although those things have their place, they have no power to redeem us. In our continual clinging to Christ we have forgiveness, and in that alone. Every time we sin, or even reflect on our former sins, we should remember that Jesus gave all the evidence we need to embrace the escape from condemnation that we so desperately needed.
From Adam down, and even those who were righteous in the Lord (mediators) were not enough to argue the case. None of us were there when Christ died, but God was. And the sight of our sins, intermingled with the agony of the death of His only Son, was enough to imprint it upon Him for all eternity. I wonder how we can sin and not see that what Christ did will forever be enough to cleanse us? If it could cleanse the sins of our past, how could it not cleanse the ones we have yet to commit? This is not a recipe for a snowball of sin, but a lifetime of forgiveness. Let us not stay in that rocky soil (Luke 8:6); God wants us to blossom!
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