Ready to Forgive

“My Lord is more ready to pardon than you are to sin, more able to forgive than you are to transgress” -Charles Spurgeon

When I think about the sin that I commit so easily and regularly and then how I go to Jesus to seek forgiveness, I picture Christ granting forgiveness everytime, but with slight reluctance. I see Him as disappointed, but still willing to grant forgiveness. Spurgeon helped me to see just how great our Savior is and how the saving nature of Christ is unsearchable! I can never understand how vast and intimate His desire to forgive sins is.

It blows my mind to think that as ready and quick I am to forgive that sin. He doesn’t think about it at all, but freely grants forgiveness. For He has already paid the price for my sins. The work of the cross has redeemed me from my sin and taken away that record of debt. How glorious it is for us to run to the Savior who is more ready and more able to forgive than we are ready and able to sin! All praise to the great Forgiver!