HEBREWS 9:26

The Weight Of Uncertainty

The careless words. The selfish thoughts. The things you should have done but didn’t. The things you did but shouldn’t have.

You pray and confess, but what if you forgot something?

What if there was a sin you did not recognize as a sin or one you forgot to bring before God in confession?

Am I still in fellowship with God?

Many believers live with this constant uncertainty, fearing that their connection with God is as fragile as their ability to recall and confess every sin.

But if maintaining fellowship depends on you, how can you ever be at peace? Because the truth is, you and I sin more than we realize. In our thoughts. In our words. In our actions.

If your fellowship with God were contingent on perfect confession, you would never be truly close to Him.

You would always be one forgotten sin away from separation.

But Scripture paints a different picture.

"As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." (Psalm 103:12)

East and West can never meet. That is how far God has removed your sins from you. Not just the ones you remember. Not just the ones you confess, but all of them.

To understand this better, let us briefly return to the Old Testament.

In ancient Israel, on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), the high priest would place his hands on a sacrificial animal, symbolically transferring all of Israel’s sins onto it.

The animal symbolically bore the people’s sins, and its blood was taken into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled before the mercy seat.

Then, the people would wait.

Would the priest emerge alive? If he did, it meant God accepted the sacrifice for their sins, and they could expect God’s favor for another year.

The animals' blood temporarily covered the people's sins, requiring repeated sacrifices until Jesus came.

These animal sacrifices foreshadowed the ultimate atonement Jesus would accomplish for us: not to cover but to remove our sin "as far as the east is from the west."

"But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." (Hebrews 9:26, ESV)

At the cross, He became our sin-bearer. When He entered the grave, He carried every failure, every sin, every burden.

"For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." (2 Corinthians 5:21, ESV)

When He emerged from the tomb, it was the ultimate proof—our divine receipt. Jesus' blood was shed for us, and God accepted the atonement.

It is finished.

Our fellowship with God is not fragile.

It is not based on perfect confession but on Jesus' perfect sacrifice.

To remain sin-conscious is to doubt the finished work of the cross. To believe we are only as close to God as our last confession is to live as though Jesus’ resurrection wasn’t enough.

But it was enough.

Accepting Jesus as your Savior makes you part of this divine grace. You are not in and out of fellowship with God "based on your performance."

You are held by God's grace, not your effort.

So, let go of the fear.

Let go of the doubt.

Rest in the truth that your fellowship with God is unshakable because it is founded on Jesus, not you.

---