CS Lewis said it pretty well. But I like God's version better. I reread His version again this morning. The context is Peter’s vision of the sheet descending from heaven – the sheet filled with all kinds of non-kosher animals, reptiles, and birds – all of which God had declared through Moses to be unclean and not to be eaten by Jews.
As Peter watches this
vision unfold, “A voice came to him, “Get up, Peter, kill and
eat!” But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I
have never eaten anything unholy and unclean.” Again a voice came to him a
second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.” (Acts 10:13-15)
It was the last sentence that captured my
attention this morning: “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.”
Said another way could be, I suppose: “Whatever sins God has cleansed, no long
consider unclean and unforgiven.”
Lewis said it this way: “If God forgives us, we must
forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it’s like setting up ourselves as a higher
tribunal than Him.”
Lewis’ is good. But I really like God's better. And so, the point: Christian – have you confessed and repented of your sins? If so, then don’t let yourself call God a liar when He tells you you’re now clean; When He tells you you’re now forgiven.
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