Christian Living

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Trans- is one of the most common prefixes in the English language. It is used in words that signify change or movement from one thing or place or condition to another. "Trans-words" have a lot of significant applications to the Christian walk, and the first such word to examine is the not-so-fun, but necessary, TRANSGRESSION.

As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12 NKJV

I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins. Isaiah 43:25 NKJV

God will do one of two things with your transgressions (your sins). He will remember & punish them, or He will forgive, remove & forget them – and He would rather do the latter. God foresaw Adam’s transgression in the Garden of Eden even before there was either a Garden or an Adam or a “me” or a “you.” He knew that Adam’s decision to transgress, or disobey, the only commandment (“…but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die…” Genesis 2:17 NKJV) would separate God from His most prize creation (us), and He would not allow that to stand.

In order that our separation from the Creator would not be permanent, God made a covenant with The Son (Jesus) that Jesus would be our substitute, our sacrificial Lamb “slain from the foundation of the world,” (Revelation 13:8 NKJV), who “takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29 NKJV) Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection broke the power of any transgression you or I could ever commit – that has been God’s plan from before the Beginning.

It was never God’s will for us to sin, to transgress His commandments, and it has never been His will for us to die, or perish, because of our transgressions. (See 2 Peter 3:9) Accepting the love and forgiveness of God through the perfect sacrifice of Jesus frees you from all of your transgressions and the guilt and the penalty of eternal punishment that they carry. Will you accept God's total love and forgiveness today? If you have already done so, will you tell someone else that he or she can be free – today? Let God do with transgressions what He is so ready and willing to do with them – forgive, remove, and forget.

**Adapted from the author's website at http://www.seedwords.com/pages.asp?pageid=79368

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