Pardoned - Not Paroled

Whenever the voice of conscience prods a person to seek forgiveness and there’s a positive response to that nudging, that individual has turned from resistance to compliance. Resistance is clothed in anger and fear, while compliance is wrapped in faith and hope. God created your conscience to be a light for moral and spiritual choices.  

Saying yes to your conscience is saying yes to God and life.  When the Prodigal Son came home with a repentant attitude, his forgiving father proclaimed with joy, "My son was lost and is now found, was dead, but is now alive."  Repentance that marshals in forgiveness liberates the burdened heart to explore life free from the chains of guilt and sorrow.

When God forgives you, he doesn't put you on parole to test your rehabilitation. Instead, he has pardoned you, which means you are no longer held accountable to God for previous sins - although society will hold you accountable. Forgiveness promises a pardon for past sins, so you can fulfill God’s future for yourself.  

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Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

~Isaiah 55:6-7 New International Version

But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you. 
~Psalm 130:4 New International Version