Gloria Copeland — Redemption From Sin

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Gloria Copeland

We are secure in knowing that we can never change
how much He loves us. Everything God does and all
His thoughts are based on His mercy. These are the
high thoughts and ways of Isaiah 55:8-9. His mercy is
“over all his works.” When we make mistakes, He looks
tenderly at us with compassion.

The cry of God’s heart is for us to run from all sin and
come to Him. He offers us a place of rest. He is continually
saying, “Don’t do that anymore. Come unto me, all ye
that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest”
(Matthew 11:28). In His mercy, God will sometimes deal
with people for a lifetime, and still they pay very little
attention to Him. But what little attention they do give
Him, He blesses them in that area.

God is totally motivated by love. We cannot make Him
do anything. Trying to force Him to help us by crying
about needs He has already met in Christ is outside the
realm of His mercy and tenderness. He is waiting for
us to walk by faith. Romans 4:16 says: “Therefore
it is of faith, that it might be by grace.” He wants
to deal with us on the basis of grace and mercy. His
desire is to bless us even more than we desire to be blessed.

Even though your body may have been damaged
through sin, drugs, alcohol, wrong eating habits, etc., God
still compassionately desires to see your body well and
strong. His mercy will come in and cleanse you from all
unrighteousness. It will replace the sin in your life. Proverbs
16:6 says, “By mercy and truth iniquity is purged.” Or you
could say, “By mercy and the Word, iniquity is purged.”
When mercy flows in, the drug addiction or desire for
drink leaves, never to return.

The devil doesn’t want you to accept God’s mercy. He
would like for you to think that one sin calls for another.
The truth is that sin calls for the compassion of God, and
deliverance and redemption through Jesus Christ. God’s
mercy is not an excuse to sin. Rather, it is an assurance that
we do not have to be entrapped by it. Proverbs 28:13 says,
“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso
confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”

Gloria Copeland

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