Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1.
The story is told that during the Civil War someone asked President Lincoln, “When the war is over and the Southerners are back in the Union, how are you going to treat them?”
Lincoln’s response, “I am going to treat them as though they have never been away.”
And that is how our heavenly Father treats us when we come to Him after we have sinned. 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
He not only forgives, He cleanses. Marvelous thought! Marvelous God!