Forgiveness Provides Confidence In The Hour Of Crisis

University of Kansas Medical Center

The knowledge that you have been unconditionally forgiven and that the Lord God has removed your sins and cast them as far as the east is from the west can give a person great confidence when the storms of life are about to blow your house down.
This past week my brother received a phone call from the transplant team at the University of Kansas Med Center informing him that they had received a liver for his procedure. This was a particularly huge blessing because my brother's days on this earth were fast evaporating with each passing day. As we sat in his ICU room that night and listened to the doctor discuss the possible outcomes of this surgery we were confronted with the real possibility that he could lose his life in this difficult procedure. After a few hours of dialysis and just minutes from his departure for the operating room my brother made a very bold statement. He told his wife that "If this surgery doesn't go well tonite I know where I'm going". He went on to say "Regardless of how this surgery turns out it will be better for me". If the surgery was a success he would begin the long road to better health and if it was a failure he would be in the presence of the Lord!
How does a person acquire that kind of confidence? By trusting in what Jesus did on the cross and His resurrection from the dead as being sufficient payment for sin! My brother came to that faith and trust many years ago and his confidence has not wavered. Maybe you're going through a particularly difficult time in your life, do you have that kind of unshakeable confidence? If not, trust Jesus today.

1 John 5:13

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹³These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.