Did you ever ask yourself why God forgives us?  Well, Scripture tells us that it’s not because of us or anything that we did and it’s certainly not something that we deserve. It’s because of who God is.  God is a holy being who desires to share his holiness with us so that he might be glorified.  He shares this by his forgiveness as an expression of his holiness.  So, when people think that God couldn’t possibly forgive them because of what they did or even Christians who have fallen away for a time, the answer is that God will always forgive you because it is the nature of his holiness. 

Jesus makes this very clear in several parables such as the lost sheep where the shepherd leaves his 99 sheep to save the 1 who is lost and the prodigal son who runs away from his family only to return to a forgiving father.  God receives great joy when he forgives us because it allows him to express himself so that all can see his glory.  When we forgive others in the name of Jesus, we are also expressing God’s forgiveness to the glory of God our Father.  How beautiful is forgiveness in that we can offer others the holiness of God that they also might see and believe in his glory.