Hide and Go Seek Blog

Hi. It’s been a while.

As a Christian you are constantly striving for a higher level of devotion to Christ. Sometimes, things happen, decisions are made that can destroy any sense of closeness, and leave you in a world of regret and and heartfelt anguish. You are left in a lonely room of you’re own guilt and shame. In that time of solitude, accompanied only by your memories of your actions, and the fear of what is to come, you cry out to God for forgiveness. Looking for any sign from above that God is still willing to call you a child. You don’t know what He’ll say, but you plead for forgiveness and wait for a response. And it comes in the late hours of the moonless night.
Forgiveness from God comes in an instance. The sacrifice Christ made to secure our salvation and forgiveness was an eternal sacrifice that covered the sins of an entire mankind for all eternity, and through confession and repentance we can live inside of that eternal forgiveness.
However, it is the internal forgiveness that is like walking the long road home. Sometimes it takes years to overcome the guilt and shame and truly forgive yourself for the things of the past. This is the hardest part of the Christian life–knowing that Eternal forgiveness is already granted, but that internal forgiveness is the long road home.
, Chad