- 58. Iniquity Forgiven
Isaiah 33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
God has a wonderful promise for the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom of God and for His people that dwell in it: their sins shall be forgiven. This forgiveness of iniquity has come through the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ. Because our sins are forgiven we are brought into the Promised Land of our inheritance in heaven. We enter into the Kingdom by repentance and faith in the Gospel. The Gospel says, “Jesus died for you; your sins are forgiven.” When we repent and believe that Good News we become an inhabitant of the Kingdom of God.
We live in iniquity, another word for sin. Iniquity means unequal, uneven, crooked. Sin causes our lives to be broken and fragmented, without harmony and peace. Sin makes us separated from God and from Life, and without God our lives cannot ever come into line and be in a straight way. Iniquity simply means things are not quite right and smooth; it is the evidence of sin. When sin and iniquity is forgiven our lives begin to come into alignment and smooth out. Life flows.
We need forgiveness daily, for we sin daily. Thankfully, we have forgiveness daily; it is always available; it is constantly held out for us to receive. The more we repent and believe the forgiveness of iniquity the more our lives come out on an even keel, things come together, and we are at peace. We admit that we cannot straighten our life, get all our stuff together, nor make peace by ourselves. We need help; we need more than help; we need the Lord to do it all. And this is His promise: He does it.