How Utterly Undependable are Our Feelings

In whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. Colossians 1.14.

Suppose a Christian has sinned and he asks God to forgive him. Do you know when God forgives him? Some say pray until there is peace in the heart, for this is the evidence of forgiveness. Are there not many who have committed many sins and yet their hearts are quite at peace? Are there not also many whose sins have been forgiven but they still feel unpeaceful? How utterly undependable is man’s feeling. In case a Christian has sinned, how long will you tell him he must pray before he can receive forgiveness? Let it be known that over nineteen hundred years ago Christ had already borne your sins away; that you have already died in the death of Christ, and hence you have already received forgiveness.