Do you know you’re guilty before God? Do you regret what you’ve been? Jesus is inviting you in our text to receive the grace that God is offering. In Christ’s Name, go before God with all of your concerns related to this world and the next. His very strong encouraging of it indicates His very strong interest in helping you. What He’s offering is really there for you.

Christ’s unwavering faithfulness in the face of the worst suffering stands as your record before God because yours of faithlessness and disobedience and denial stood as His record, and as the crimes for which He was punished. You are entirely forgiven and stand under God’s grace. So, it isn’t even about the strength of your resolve; it’s His on your behalf.

The fact is, your listening and your following have fallen short. But those words are spoken by the One without any sins. They’re spoken by the One whose life never had any sinful doubts in it like yours has; so His sacrifice made payment for yours. He has put Himself in your place. God has forgiven your doubts and your other sins because Jesus has put Himself in your place. Before God it looks like you’ve never committed them; He looked at Jesus as if He had, and punished Him for them.

You have peace with God in Christ. Your sins are forgiven in Him. There is no need for you to be troubled. This One Who has never doubted or sinned in any other way has been put in your place, and you in His.