How Do I Know That God Has Truly Forgiven My Sin?

Forgiveness is a beautiful, beautiful experience when it happens, but it is a fleeting experience for a lot of people. We don't really know how to forgive, and we're never really sure that we've quite been forgiven because there's such a nebulous thing that happens with forgiveness. There's a word picture though from when that word appears a lot in the New Testament. One of the words that's used more times than not is a word that also means the untying of a knot.

So you think about how if you've gotten a knot in your shoes before. It's not as common today as it used to be, but when there's a knot in, I would say the Christmas lights. I don't know about you, but there's such a sense of accomplishment when you finally get the thing detangled or you throw it away. Okay. Maybe not the best example, but anyway, you've got a knot. You're working hard at this knot, and then finally you get it undone. And when you get it undone, there's actually a very high likelihood that you'll never be able to tie that knot again, in the exact same place. The knot is gone and can't be redone. And that's what forgiveness is is the untying of knots. And interestingly enough, if I forgive you, I'm untying a knot in me. It's not that I'm untying a knot in you. I'm untying a knot in me. So the act of the forgiver unties a knot really in themselves. And then the act of the receiving of that on the part of the forgiven, there's a sense that you're free.

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