God蘑菇视频 not afraid of you
“If I would go to church the roof would cave in.”
How many times has someone made this refrain? As if their presence would be so much for the spiritual world to handle that the physical structure would start to give way. Are there folks who are so far removed from what is right and holy that if they would enter through the church doors it would create such a seismic shift in the cosmos that the underpinnings of material reality would begin to unravel?
The shock of them being in a place of worship would jolt all laws of physics into contortions and the realm we live in would manifest its displeasure and disbelief by the ceiling surrendering its tangible hold above the patrons. Okay, enough with the hyperbole.
The sad reality is that too many people think they have gone too far away, or have been gone too long from God for forgiveness or reconciliation.
That if they showed up looking for God that he would shun them because of their past. Nothing could be further from the truth. God’s not afraid of you or what you have done, been through, or are currently going through.
There are some real problems and sin that we face going through life. Too often we feel that either no one cares or that they can’t do anything about us. We have hit rock bottom so deep that we can’t be pulled out or recover.
Read the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32 with the famous ending, “he was lost and is found,” which details the story of a rebellious son who ended up in the worse way and yet, when he came back to his father’s house, he was enthusiastically welcomed.
Sometimes we need a reminder of who He is and what He is all about, while in prison, during a divorce, after a difficult decision or addictions, to which 1 Cor 6:9-11 throws out some dialogue about the congregation’s past with the key thought in V11, “and that is what some of you were,” which is said in past tense, because of the renewing work of Christ.
This was a Christian church who had as its membership, most of the folk with notorious reputations, but who started over and were held in the Grace of God. Isn’t that the story of most Christians?
In Psalm 40:2 the author cites that God brought or pulled him out of, “a horrible pit, the miry clay.”
You can’t pull someone out of mud and not get your hands dirty. The person needs cleaned up and you are in contact with their filth, but God does this because he wants to save us and he is not afraid of soiled and sometimes desperate lives.
Follow this line of logic: 1 John 4: 8B reveals that, “God is love.” And 1 John 4:18A informs us, “that there is no fear in love and perfect love drives out fear.” So the end result is that since God is perfect love, he is not afraid to deal with you and whatever is going on in your life.
Romans 5:20 says that God’s grace is more abundant than any trespass, or sin. It would have to be, logically, otherwise God would be limited, and limited by something you did, or have happening in your life. God grace is always bigger or he wouldn’t be God.
I am not negating God’s holiness or standards for right living, but I am declaring the truth that God is faithful to forgive and his mercy triumphs over his judgment, found in James 2:13B.
How many of us feel despondent and estranged from God because we erroneously have come to believe for whatever reasons that God will not have anything to do with us? 1 John 1:9 NIV just about says it all, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
This isn’t a license to sin, but a path to reconciliation, an invitation from the one whose mercies and compassions fail not.
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