In Need Of... Newness.

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 - ...If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them...
God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

ZAP! You are forgiven.

It's really almost that easy! And soooo wonderful!

God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to die for our sins so that we don't have to suffer eternal punishment. Jesus had no sin, and yet He died the death we deserved.
If we were looking at ourselves from a "worldly point of view (2 Cor. 5:16)" we would see all the mistakes we had done in the past, all the mistakes we are making now, every relationship we'd ruined and all the punishment and consequences that are going to happen for all of that.
When God looks at us as forgiven believers in the risen Christ, He sees His beloved children, righteous people, people whom He wants to call His own. He sees Christ in us. That is far from what we deserve.
He sees us as new creations. Newer than a brand new baby - since we are born as sinful people. The blood that Jesus shed when He died on the cross washes us sparkling new - as God originally intended for man to be, except so much better since we don't deserve it.

It's also wonderful to think that anytime we sin - and all people continue to sin, regardless of their intentions - God will wash us clean again... and again... and again. Until the time comes that you meet Him face to face, He will continue to grant you forgiveness! And continue to renew and renew you...!

Woooooonderful!