Christ is Forgiveness...

Isaiah 53:6
We all, like sheep, have gone astray
each of us has turned to his own way
and the Lord has laid on him,
the iniquity of us all

Forgiveness isn't I'm better this week than I was last week
Forgiveness isn't because I started coming to church
Forgiveness isn't I watched my mouth
Forgiveness isn't I'm not who I was back in college
Forgiveness isn't I read my bible in the morning
Forgiveness isn't I watch this kind of movie and I don't watch this kind of movie
Forgiveness isn't I'm a good person

Forgiveness is owed to and belongs to Christ alone in the cross, purchased for you, right standing before God. Every act of willful or ignorant disobedience was punished in Christ on the cross so that now we stand forgiven by no merit of our own.

all quoted from a Matt Chandler sermon...just fantastic!