I am sure I am not the only believer in Christ who often has to fight feelings of unworthiness on my part. We all know we are unworthy; even God Himself is aware of the fact. I won't argue with my fallen nature or Satan or whoever it is whispering these negative thoughts in my heart; they are doubtless true. By all reckoning I am nothing. Without controversy I am depraved. Beyond all doubt there is no reason God should hear my cries.
But the salient issue here is not whether we are worthy or worthless, but that GOD IS worthy. HE has all power in His mighty hands. He has all wisdom. He is totally beyond compare; and the clincher is that God is LOVE. He loved us before He made us, He loved us before we fell in the Garden of Eden and He loved – correction: He LOVES us – after we in effect spurned the love of this all-everything God.
Yes, He is righteous and I am covered in sin. He is every good thing that I am not. But working its way through all these negatives is the one indisputable fact: God loves me and will not stand idly by and see me die – if I will only have faith in Jesus and the blood He shed for me.
The more I read of God and Jesus and the story of salvation the more I am convinced of this awesome love that refuses to let me go. It is not a love that literally forces me to believe and to be saved; it is a love that will hound me – and has hounded me – every sinful, crooked step of my rebellious way. It will not let me go unless and until in the end I stubbornly refuse to be saved and wrench my hand out of His and finally plunge into the torment that is my just lot.
But you and I are not of those who go to such unthinkable extremes as rejecting God and bulling our way into damnation. We are simply one of the many persons who do not have to refute our own unworthiness but whose sole hope and only anchor is in Jesus Christ and His life and suffering and gruesome death and total righteousness, the righteousness that now covers us completely.
We who were once dead in sins and trespasses are now alive and totally righteous in Him! Let’s accept that truth in our hearts and fully partake of the life that is in Christ. We don’t have to wallow in our own filth, which filth was completely washed away by our living faith in the blood of Jesus. We have the mandate now to grow and flourish and be beautiful flowers of praise in the garden of our God! Wake up and LIVE! There is still much work to be done.
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