The message of yesterday is hugely on my mind and heart today. I had an intake come to me through email yesterday for counseling. The intake was from someone who had come over a year ago. At that time this person’s marriage was on the rocks. There was an affair going on presently and there had been multiple affairs earlier in the marriage. Both parties in the marriage had recommitted their lives to God and restored their commitment to one another. Now, 1.5 years later the one who had been in the affair is trying to forgive themselves and unable to do so.

Forgiveness is such a huge item and in our flesh alone we are never worthy of it. I awoke early this morning not only with this person on my mind, but all of the ones coming who are unable to find their own self-forgiveness. Good grief, if you aren’t worthy of it, how can one just give it to oneself? I lived in this world for decades! I just pushed it aside so I could do what I could do as well as possible hoping that in heaven I’d find all of this “peace” scripture talks about.

This morning during my journaling I was reminded of Gloria Gaither’s song, “It Is Finished”. It’s lyrics tell so well this battle of self-forgiveness. Christ’s dying on the cross and His resurrection WON this battle for each of us. The 4th verse of this song says: “Yet in my heart, the battle still rages, not all prisoners of war had come home. These were battlefields of my own making, I didn’t know that the war had been won.” Satan didn’t want me to accept Christ’s Work on the Cross for me and he certainly does not want anyone else to know/believe this either.

Romans 3:20-26 tells us so well how Christ’s righteousness has been given to us through our FAITH. This will be the message I’ll share for our battle is WON and by genuine FAITH we can forgive self and do what I’ve written before–find self-love, self-appreciation and self-confidence for we are “fearfully and wonderfully made and we can know this full well!” (Psalms 139:14)