There are frequently two incorrect assumptions many assign to God.
1. I’m not good enough.
2. My sin is too great.
First, you may notice I said we assign those assumptions to God. That was not a typo. We may be sulking in our own history of mistakes, but we are effectively saying, “I have dug a hole so big even God can’t reach me!”
Do you really believe that is possible? Are we so great that our mishaps can limit our creator?
Secondly, lets revisit what God did to forgive our sins. He let His Son live a homeless, nomadic life on earth, allowed him to be mocked, tortured, and killed, and put all of our sins on Him in our place. Do we really believe that after all of that, His plan to save US had a flaw? Are we so clever we found a loophole?
When you claim your sins are too big, you are also saying God is too small. And incidentally, you are kind of saying the whole death on a cross thing was a bit of a dud. Equally so, if we assume our merit, in any way, affects God’s relationship with us, we have a gross misunderstanding of God’s plan from the beginning. Jesus came to save the sinner… of which we all are.
We cloak our statements so it sounds like we are so bad and unworthy…. but what we are really saying is that God can’t. Or God won’t. That line of thinking has a problem with tense. God did! It’s already done. The price has already been paid. To know that Jesus already died for your sins and then to believe you are exempt from that salvation is to call God’s plan a failure. You think you are saying, “no, I failed… ME!” but that is exactly why you have been forgiven… because we all fail. We all seek forgiveness… and God will give that grace-filled forgiveness to any and all who ask sincerely.
Why would He go through the agony of letting His Son die… Why would Jesus go through the whole of it… if it wasn’t a complete package deal? Did God tell Him, “sorry, Son, the liars and thieves can be saved but the adulterers and murderers are on their own? No.
No matter how sick, how disgusting, how repulsive you find yourself… Jesus bought those attributes from you. There might be something holding you back or keeping you from letting go of those sins… but nothing held Jesus back from dying for them.
So instead of shrugging off your Savior and condemning yourself… try asking for a little grace. Grace is that thing that NONE of us deserves, but He gives it to us anyway because He loves us. You don’t require MORE grace than anyone else. We all need grace. And to all who ask, all will receive.
One final reminder… One of Satan’s biggest lies is in the mirror. Its how we perceive ourselves. God loves us and wants us to be with Him. He payed dearly so we could be with Him. If you are feeling unwanted, useless, unworthy, or unloved… you are being deceived. God follows His own commands, of which the greatest is, to love all.
Here is the sad summary… you can choose not to accept grace. Many do. But it isn’t because it wasn’t offered. Can you get so hungry that food won’t help? Can you get so thirsty that water won’t work? Can you be so poor that you turn down money because it will just make things worse? I hope those all sound ridiculous to you. Because it seems quite silly to God that you would find yourself in a predicament that He can’t solve or forgive.
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