What I’m saying is that we need to take sin way. more. seriously. If your heart is heavy and you feel sick to your stomach right now, good—that’s the healthy, emotionally mature response to the gravity of sin. Does God forgive? Constantly. Does he wipe the slate clean and help people start over? All the time. Is there healing in Jesus? Yes. But we still need to grapple with the weight of sin, because we don’t want to miss out on blessing! We don’t want to stare over the waters of Jordan, right on the cusp of the life God has for us, only to throw it all away and spend years of our life in
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