I found this article this morning and I was very blessed..
We tend to run from God when we sin. We hide from Him when we mess up. We stand cowering in the corner of the ruins of our lives, scared to approach Him or face Him or ask Him for anything in the way of help because we’re afraid He’s mad at us. We’re afraid we’re too big of a mess for Him to possibly love us.
We are pitifully human and entirely uncertain. We are, in a sense, Louie. But…what if it’s possible that if I in all my fleshly and fallible and imperfect humanity found something so sympathetic and so worthy of love in Louie….that maybe, just MAYBE…God isn't turned off or angry or unsympathetic to us in the midst of OUR messes?
What if it is, in fact, exactly the opposite?
What if God sees us standing there so hopeless and helpless and ensnared in the chaos of our own bad choices and instead of turning His back on us, it makes Him long to open His arms even wider to us?
What if we've been wrong about Him all along? What if He only hates the sin because of what it’s done to our lives but is still passionately in love with the sinner?
What if He looks beyond the dirt and the muck and the filth and the garbage that we've cluttered our lives with and sees only the beautiful, pure, precious heart of His child beating underneath?
We are pitifully human and entirely uncertain. We are, in a sense, Louie. But…what if it’s possible that if I in all my fleshly and fallible and imperfect humanity found something so sympathetic and so worthy of love in Louie….that maybe, just MAYBE…God isn't turned off or angry or unsympathetic to us in the midst of OUR messes?
What if it is, in fact, exactly the opposite?
What if God sees us standing there so hopeless and helpless and ensnared in the chaos of our own bad choices and instead of turning His back on us, it makes Him long to open His arms even wider to us?
What if we've been wrong about Him all along? What if He only hates the sin because of what it’s done to our lives but is still passionately in love with the sinner?
What if He looks beyond the dirt and the muck and the filth and the garbage that we've cluttered our lives with and sees only the beautiful, pure, precious heart of His child beating underneath?
Or…
What if we’re hanging our heads in shame, asking God for a 50 cent cheeseburger because we don’t feel like we’re worthy of more than that…and all the while He longs to bless us with the burgers, the fries, the large coke, and the apple pie?
The full article is here..
Shahlohm..
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