A Moment Aside for 30 April 2021

 A Moment Aside --- 30 April 2021

                                                                  

 

We have an idea within us that we are not worthwhile and that God could only love us if we made ourselves better. Once we achieved that we would be worthy of God’s love. Once we had cleaned up our act to become the absolute best, then we might deserve God’s love.

That is such a malicious thought. It implies a number of things:

·        God is waiting in ambush, watching for us to mess up.

·        We have to do this all ourselves and God is waiting for us to fail.

·        We change first, then (maybe) God will love us.

·        We had better refine ourselves completely or else God will drop us like a hot potato.

There’s more, but I only have so much room here. What we forget is this…

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  (John 3:16-17)

But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.  (Romans 5:8)

 

And yes, it applies to you… and to me… and to all of us.