"Hope to Cope"

"Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish." (Psalms 39:8) Do not think that there is no repercussion for our sin, because the Bible clearly says, "for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap". (Galatians 6:7) On the bright side, what ever those repercussions might be, they end here, as long as we have been forgiven of our sins and have repented; all the carnage will be left here, to be burnt up with everything else. As a matter of fact, I don't think that it will be something on our minds once we are with the Lord in heaven, because it says in Revelation 21:4, "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." What that means for those that have sinned so bad that they can't stop weeping over what they have done, is that there is hope that one day God will wipe that sin from their mind, just as He wipes it from His own. God will surely deliver us from all of our transgressions; as John says in 1 John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness"; but that does not mean we shall not suffer from the consequences of our sin, whether they might be big or small, all sin has consequence, and all sin leaves a mark on this earth. The fullness of what that mark might be, we really will never know, but God knows; if He knows every hair on our head, then He can also know every domino that has been knocked down because of our sins, and the chain of events to evolve from our transgressions. It's the "reproach of the foolish" that we must concern our selves with, for they are those that do not understand God's mercy, nor do they understand forgiveness; they mock that God could even consider forgiving us for what we have done, yet they do not consider themselves as a sinner. Sin is sin, no matter how we slice it; all sin is the same in God's eye; it all has the same root, and it all has been purchased by the blood of Christ; therefore, it has all been dealt with the same, and that gives us the right to rejoice in our deliverance, and to share God's forgiveness... "Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make desolate cities to be inhabited." (Isaiah 54:1-3)