A few weeks ago I was conducting a church service at a local home for boys who have had trouble with their behavior. This is a regular monthly meeting for me on Sunday afternoon, I am in a rotation with 3 other ministers.
The service is started with a little talk with the boys and then prayer and singing, they seam to like it when I come because I play the guitar and because of the singing. This time I stopped the second song because i thought someone might not understand the message when one of the boys who was obviously very troubled asked, "do you think God will forgive me". This was quite touching to me because that was my own question when I was saved many years ago; I remember praying, "God if you can forgive me I want to be saved too". I had not grown up in the church and I knew I had sinned greatly against God, I wasn't sure I could be forgiven. The good news that I have learned since then is that there is no sin to great or trouble so bad that God can not forgive us and bring us out of. I assured the boy that God had made a way through Jesus Christs suffering & death on the cross to pay for his offences and forgive his sins, the young man was so glad and prayed then and there and asked Jesus to forgive him and come in his life and be his Lord, so did the 2 boys on his left & right. I pray that one day they will be sharing their story of forgiveness with many and be reminded that Jesus payed the price so that anyone who believes can be forgiven and become part of the family of God.
Jesus said: All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. John 6:37
