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Brethren, at the end of day, the difference between a victorious Christian and an unbeliever is the Christian’s audacity to ask. The audacity to ask for forgiveness and the audacity to ask for undeserved favours.
Yes, Audacity is a word we must use carefully because it has both positive and negative connotations; yet it is just the right word to describe the kind of courage, the kind of confidence that makes any human being suppose that he or she has the right to ask God for anything. God: high, exalted, and holy. And us: sinful in nature, sinful in words, thoughts and deed. How dare we suppose we have access to such a great and mighty God? What audacity!
Brethren, if your imperfections or confessed sins ever make you hear a voice saying how dare you suppose that you have access to God or what audacity you have to ask for help in spite of your own foolish mistakes, your answer should be summed up in the words of this hymn: Jesus Paid it All!Jesus paid it all,All to Him I owe;Sin had left a crimson stain,He washed it white as snow.
Yes, Jesus paid it all! Jesus paid it all! That is the Christian’s answer to any voice saying: how dare you suppose you have access to God or what audacity to suppose you can ask Him for help? That is the Christian’s answer: Jesus paid it all!
Have you not read from Hebrews 4:15 that we can and should and are invited to approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. WHY? Because our great high priest, who understands our weaknesses, who was also tempted but did not sin, He has paid it all. He has paid it all. He has paid it all. He has paid it all.
Brethren, we have not because we ask not (James 4:2) and often times, we ask not because we lack the courage, the audacity to ask. Sin holds us back. Past mistakes and errors hold us back. And they should. Because sin separates us from the mighty works of God (IS. 59:1).But Jesus has paid for our sins and whenever we summon the audacity to go God, not in our names, not in our own right, but in the name of Jesus, in the righteousness of Jesus, and we confess our sins and unworthiness and repent, we will hear the good news: there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)
So, if you find yourself lacking the confidence to approach God’s throne because you feel so undeserving of God’s love and help, let this be your song and the source of your audacity to ask:I hear the Savior say,”Thy strength indeed is small,Child of weakness, watch and pray,Find in Me thine all in all.”Jesus paid it all,All to Him I owe;Sin had left a crimson stain,He washed it white as snow.
Father, we thank you for the gift of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, who died and paid for our access to Your holy presence. Please grant that Your Holy Spirit will always remind us that our access to You has been paid for and paid for in full so much so that the guilt of sin will never hold us back from having the courage, the confidence and even the audacity to ask for forgiveness and to ask for help. In Jesus name, Amen.
