Peace with God

"So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city. Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” And he arose and departed to his house. Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men. Matthew 9:1-8 NKJV

Healing is easier to do, because even a physician can heal a paralytic. But Jesus is asking the scribes which is easier to say, not do. Forgiving sins is easier to say because it is difficult to prove it. Through this event, our Lord Jesus Christ wanted to demonstrate the fact that he has power to heal man and to forgive man's sins.

Jesus Christ pronounced the forgiveness of sins first because it is the starting point of healing and restoration from the hostile relationship between God and man. If we are at war with God, no matter how we may be in peace in human relationships, we are not in peace at all. True peace is coming from God the Father and the Son Jesus Christ. When we are in peace with the Father, we can have true peace with others.

Is it not what our humanity has desperately been seasearching for centuries after centuries? The full release and deliverartion from guilt and shame and despair! No matter how we tried hard to be free from those monstrous force it was no avail. Education doesn't work but makes worse because it teaches us how to bypass, not to go through. Making efforts to improve circumstances doesn't work either because it never touches the inside but outside only. Human problems are much deeper and higher than what we think.

What man cannot do has been done by Jesus Christ who was promised to come and came to die on the cross in our place. That is the reason for Jesus to forgive the paralytic man ans us who believe in Him. Jesus Christ gave His life for us that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). That's right! The forgiveness of sin brings real life sealed by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We who are born again in Jesus Christ are in peace with God, not any longer at waragainst Him. So, we have access to the throne of grace now and forevermore.