TGIF

Since today is Friday, I couldn’t help think of the abbreviation, TGIF for Thank God It’s Friday. But as I thought about that very popular definition, I realized there was a much better phrase: Thank God I’m Forgiven.

When Adam and Eve sinned, they set the stage for sin to pass down to every one of us. No matter how good we tried to be, we could never attain the perfection that would be needed to enter Heaven. Our fate was eternal condemnation.

Only God was perfect; therefore, any means of perfection had to come from Him. There was and is nothing we could do to save ourselves. We needed a Savior, and that came in the form of Jesus, who is Perfection since He is God in the flesh.

When Jesus died on the cross, He took upon Himself the sins of the world. When we accept His sacrifice for us, and believe He is our Lord and Savior, then our sins our wiped clean. No longer are we condemned to death. We are made free because we have been forgiven, and we now have eternity as our reward.

So as you enjoy your Friday, thank God for it. But also thank Him that through Jesus you can be forgiven, too.