There is a gospel singer...
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There is a gospel singer who has touched the hearts of many of us with a song he wrote. It is a song about a true experience in his own life. He is from Scotland and he was raised in a Christian home. His mother was a prayer warrior who loved her children deeply. She would do anything honorable for her children. She would go the extra mile to forgive and forget. In the song about his mother, the singer uses a phrase we don't hear anymore. It is the words "my chap." His mother would call her children to her side, and if she used the phrase "my chap" then there was open confession in that home. Every son and daughter could confess anything they wanted to confess, and it would never come up again. They would not be punished for the matter they confessed. It simply was forgiven and forgotten -- once and for all -- never to be remembered again. The load lifted from the young children's hearts was buried in God's sea of forgetfulness. The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians says something similar to "my chap." Paul says that it is God's nature to lavish upon us his grace which is greater than our need. The forgiveness of our sins. Someone said, "Bathe yourself in the certainty you are blessed, chosen, holy, loved, blameless, and adopted." Through Jesus Christ our God had a will and a plan which includes every one of us. He had said in so many words, "My chap," and we have responded, "My God and my Lord."
-- Shearer
-- Shearer
