Under Conviction of Sin,
Remember that I Died For You

"Under conviction of sin, remember that I died for you. When oppressed and persecuted and afflicted for My sake and the gospel's, remember My love, so great that for you I gave My life. When your duties appear stern and severe, and your burdens too heavy to bear, remember that for your sake I endured the cross, despising the shame. When your heart shrinks from the trying ordeal, remember that your Redeemer lives to make intercession for you." (1)

What a promise. Even in sin, when we know we have sinned, God is asking us to return to Him and to remember that's why He died for us, to save us from our sins: "For He will save His people from their sins." (2) "For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." (3) "The Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost" (4) "I did not come to judge the world but to save the world." (5) "Jesus came into the world to save sinners." (6) "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself… We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For God made Christ who knew not sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (7) Oh "what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be (saved from our sins and) called children of God!" (8)

Jesus invites us to follow Him and to experience Him; "Come to me,.. and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (9)

1. Desire of Ages, p. 659.
2. Matthew 1:21.
3. Luke 9:56.
4. Luke 19:10.
5. John 12:47.
6. 1 Timothy 1:15.
7. 2 Corinthians 5:19-21.
8. 1 John 3:1.
9. Matthew 11:28-30.