Boldness is what God wants you to have when
you come to Him. He does not want you to be afraid to come to Him, feeling
unworthy because of your sins. He wants you to come boldly to Him, knowing that
the death, burial and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ has justified you
and qualified you to boldly receive from Him.
This was the kind of boldness that the woman
with the issue of blood had when she touched Jesus (see Mark 5:25–34). Now, by
touching Jesus, she knew that she was breaking a Levitical law which states
that anyone with a bodily discharge is unclean, and should not appear in
public, let alone touch another person (see Leviticus 15).
But she refused to feel condemned by the law.
She believed what she had heard about Jesus, and was confident that there would
only be love and compassion, not condemnation, from Him. She believed that
Jesus would justify her and qualify her to receive the miracle she needed. That
was why she boldly pressed her way into the crowd to touch Jesus, who indeed
said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well” (Mark 5:34).
What was it about her faith that made her
well? Romans 4:5 talks about faith that believes God justifies the ungodly.
When you believe that God justifies the ungodly, it will give you boldness to
come to God, even when you feel unclean because you have just blown it.
When you fail, don’t run away from God. Run
boldly to Him, knowing that you are justified by the blood of Christ and not by
your good behavior.
The devil may say to you, “How can you do that? Who do you think you are?” Don’t listen to him. Pick yourself up and thank God for the blood and the gift of no condemnation (see Romans 8:1). If God justifies the ungodly, how much more you, His beloved child! (Article & Picture; courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries used with kind permission).
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