Why should I assume my sins are forgivable?

[Monica4316]

Conversation of the Merciful God with a Despairing Soul.

Jesus: O soul steeped in darkness, do not despair. All is not yet lost. Come and confide in your God, who is love and mercy.

But the soul, deaf even to this appeal, wraps itself in darkness.

Jesus calls out again: My child, listen to the voice of your merciful Father.
In the soul arises this reply, “For me there is no mercy,” and it falls into greater darkness, a despair which is a foretaste of hell and makes it unable to draw near to God.

Jesus calls to the souls a third time, but the soul remains deaf and blind, hardened and despairing. Then the mercy of God begins to exert itself, and, without any co-operation from the soul, God grants it final grace. If this too is spurned, God will leave the soul in this self chosen disposition for eternity. This grace emerges from the merciful Heart of Jesus and gives the soul a special light by means of which the soul begins to understand God’s effort; but conversion depends on its own will. The soul knows that this, for her, is final grace and, should it show even a flicker of good will, the mercy of God will accomplish the rest.

My omnipotent mercy is active here. Happy the soul that takes advantage of this grace.

Jesus: What joy fills My Heart when you return to Me. Because you are weak, I take you in My arms and carry you to the home of My Father.

Soul: (as if awakening, asks fearfully): Is it possible that there is yet mercy for me?

Jesus: There is, My child. You have a special claim on My mercy. Let it act in your poor soul; let the rays of grace enter your soul; they bring with them light, warmth, and life.

Soul: But fear fills me at the thought of my sins, and this terrible fear moves me to doubt Your goodness.

Jesus: My child, all your sins have not wounded My Heart as painfully as your present lack of trust does - that after so many efforts of My love and mercy, you should still doubt My goodness.

Soul: O Lord, save me yourself, for I perish. Be my Savior. O Lord, I am unable to say anything more; my pitiful heart is torn asunder; but You, O Lord…

Jesus does not let the soul finish but, raising it from the ground, from the depths of its misery, he leads it into the recesses of His Heart where all its sins disappear instantly, consumed by the flames of love.

Jesus: Here, soul, are all the treasures of My Heart. Take everything you need from it.
Soul: O Lord, I am inundated with Your grace. I sense that a new life has entered into me and, above all, I feel Your love in my heart. That is enough for me. O Lord, I will glorify the omnipotence of Your mercy for all eternity. Encouraged by Your goodness, I will confide to You all the sorrows of my heart.

Jesus: Tell Me all, My child, hide nothing from Me because My loving Heart, the Heart of Your Best Friend is listening to you.

Soul: O Lord, now I see all my ingratitude and Your goodness. You were pursuing me with Your grace, while I was frustrating Your benevolence. I see that I deserve the depths of hell for spurning Your graces.

Jesus (interrupting): Do not be absorbed in your misery - you are still too weak to speak of it - but, rather, gaze on My Heart filled with goodness, and be imbued with My sentiments. Strive for meekness and humility; be merciful to others, as I am to you; and, when you feel your strength failing, if you come to the fountain of mercy to fortify your soul, you will not grow weary on your journey.

Soul: Now I understand Your mercy, which protects me and like a brilliant star, leads me into the home of my Father, protecting me from all the horrors of hell that I have deserved, not once, but a thousand times. O Lord, eternity will hardly suffice for me to give due praise to Your unfathomable mercy and Your compassion for me.

 

[Monica4316]

If you feel that you havent’ been truly repentant in the past, why not start now?

 

[regio]

Read ephesians 2 vs1-10, verse 2 says that at times you follow the world’s evil way; you obey the rular of the spiritual powers in space the spirit who controls the people who disobey God.verse 4 now says that but God’s mercy is so abundant,and his love for us is so great,that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brougth us to life with christ.It is by God’s grace that you have been save.verse 8 say :for it is by God’s grace that you have been save through faith.it is not the result of your own efforts,but God’s gift,so that no one can boast about it.
You see it is because of our faith in christ jesus that we as christains believe that our sins are forgivable and also because of God’s grace ,and God’s love on us.For us to acknowledge our sins at the first instance shows that God’s grace is upon us for us to go to confession shows that we love God and that we believe he will forgive us our sins through his son Jesus Christ,which is the faith that we have in him.
For you to assume that your sins are not forgivable shows that you do not believe in Christ, Jesus our Lord,and that you do not love him.Take king David as an example,how often he offend God and how often God forgives him and he said David i loved.
So dont think like the pagans do as a believer in Christ. thank you.

 

[puzzleannie]

Why should I assume that I can be forgiven for my sins when I commit sins – willfully, wantonly, or at least ignorantly? Even if I go to Confession to confess my sins, that doesn’t take away the evil that I’ve committed through sins. All the Confessions in the world can’t undo my screwups – especially in the case of a bad habit that I can’t fix.?

no your action in confessing is not what takes away sin. It is the grace of Jesus Christ through his sacrifice on the Cross, given to you when the priest, actin as Christ, absolves your sins. Confession is only part of the sacrament, the rest is absolution, contrition and penance, the heart being absolution. No you cannot fix your bad habits by yourself, but you can with the help of the Holy Spirit and the grace of Christ which you receive in confession and the other sacraments. all these graces are yours for the asking. To deny that your sins can be forgiven is for one thing, a type of inverted spiritual pride (nobody has worse sins than me), and a denial of the reality of Christ’s love for us. Go to confession, confess all your sins, receive in gratitude and humility Christ’s total forgiveness and absolution, serene in the knowledge those sins have been washed away, and make a resolution for the future. Peace is yours, simply ask Christ for it.

 

[crazzeto]

Why should I assume that I can be forgiven for my sins when I commit sins – willfully, wantonly, or at least ignorantly? Even if I go to Confession to confess my sins, that doesn’t take away the evil that I’ve committed through sins. All the Confessions in the world can’t undo my screwups – especially in the case of a bad habit that I can’t fix.

I’m not talking about impurity here; I’m talking about anger. As an example, six years ago I committed an act of road rage that should have landed me in jail. Fortunately, it didn’t even result in a citation – the police officer had me apologize to the victim, and I was let off the hook.

Should I really have been forgiven for that, even though I went to Confession the week afterward? Even if I saw a counselor for anger and other mental health issues? Even if I went to a class for anger management? No, not hardly. There’s no way I can go back and undo my sin from six years ago, especially if I still have anger issues of any magnitude.

So why should I really be forgiven for sins of habit, whether I’m “working” to fix them or not? Shouldn’t I wait until I’m sure I’ve completely fixed the problem and that I won’t sin again before assuming I can be forgiven?

Think of it this way, to beleive that your Sins are not forgiviable is to believe the Holy Spirit has limitations, or that God has limitations. Does that make senes with what we know about God? No not really does it?

Now this isn’t to say that even when you are absolved of your sins, that you don’t bare some resposibility for what you did. Here’s a good explanation:

Consider this, you’re a child playing ball with your friends. You’ve been told by your mother not to do this, because you’re giong to break a window, but like any good kid you don’t beleive her so you play ball anyway. Sure enough, you hit a home run, right through your neighbors window! You’ve commited a sin, accidently as it were. Now your neighbor and your mom can (and hopefully will) forgive you of your sin, but even when they do there’s still a problem isn’t there? There’s still a broken window, and someone still has to pay to fix it don’t they? So you’re forgiven your sin, but there is still some consequence to pay here, you have to buy your neighbor a new window right?

This is purgatory, this is where we go to be loosed of our eartly attachments to sin, and to pay the temporal punishments for the sins we have already been forgiven of.