Respond to Your Redemption

Fear not.

Return to God.

How is it possible for someone to live without fear?  Even more, how can one return to God?

In so far as my standing place, identity, worth depend on me, I will fear.  As long as I believe that I my performance, holiness, and knowledge are what entitle me to God, I will not return to him.

Only when the One who created me, the world, and everything in it redeems me, I have nothing to fear.  He has called me by name.  I am His.  Nothing can even touch what is His!

"But now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
'Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine.'"
-Isaiah 43:1

Only when the Holy One, the One without blame or sin, blots out my transgressions and cancels my sins can I return to Him.  Like a cloud blown by the wind, my transgressions are gone.  Like a mist that disappears, my sins are erased.  I can come back to Him!

"I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you."
-Isaiah 44:22

Christian: Respond to your redemption.  Fear not.  Return to Him.  (For) He has redeemed you.