2020 Daily Devotion - Day 281

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A poor German girl announced she was going to give a piano concert. In order to attract people to come, in the advertisements she mentioned she was the student of the famous Hungarian professor, Franz Liszt; but it was a falsehood.
To her dismay, she learned the professor was going to visit her town on the day before the concert. What should she do now?
She went to meet him, confessed her guilt, and asked him to forgive her. The professor answered, "You made a mistake. All of us make mistakes. The only thing that you can do now is to repent; and I believe that you have already repented. Sit down and play."
At the beginning, she played with much fear. The professor corrected a few of her mistakes and said, "Now truly you can say that I taught you. Go ahead and play at your concert tomorrow evening, and the last piece will not be played by you, but by your teacher."

Our lives can be like this. We make mistakes and sometimes they are really big mistakes. Then we become afraid and worried like this young German girl. And yet because of Jesus, we can have forgiveness too. And then our Heavenly Father says, “…and then at the end of your life, it will be my reputation that matters most because through the cross and resurrection of Jesus, I will play the last song for eternity with my grace. I will not abandon you at the end.”

Romans 8:1 ESV
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Pray with me:
Heavenly Father, as we come to the end of another year, we can look back to many things we have done we are not proud of. We can look back and realize there were things we failed to do and we should have done. All in all, we are admitting to You we have sinned. And because of Jesus, there is forgiveness. Grant us this forgiveness and give us a new beginning. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Yours because of Him,
Pastor John R. Steward
Senior Pastor
Mount of Olives Church




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