He Loves Me Even Now

I am not perfect.

I get frustrated easily.

I try to be like someone else.

I fail at many things.

Most of all, I fall short of the glory of God.

But I'm not writing this post to gain anyone's pity.

I'm writing this post out of pure joy. Jesus Christ died for hopelessly lost people like me. He loved me when I ignored Him. He stayed with me when I tried to run away. He was faithful to me when I was unfaithful. He spoke to me when I would not speak to Him.

This morning, I went to Him feeling unworthy. Unworthy of reading His perfect Word, unworthy of being in His awesome presence, unworthy of talking to Him.

And He said, "Hey, I didn't die for you so you could feel this way. I know you're not perfect. If you were, you wouldn't need me. I know everything about you, more than you know about yourself."

All He asks is that I give Him my all. He'll do the rest.

What a huge relief to know that we can leave it all to Him! Give it all to Him, lay at all at His feet. Because I trust Him and know He will take care of it.

Today I read in Mark about how little faith we have.

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and don't doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You can even say this mountain, 'May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen." ~Mark 11:23

I remember trying this when I was little. Not exactly commanding a mountain to be thrown into the sea, but something that required just as much faith. Faith as small as a mustard seed.

Of course I am unworthy of being His child! But that is why He came and died to save me. Like John the prophet said, 'I am not even worthy to be His slave and carry His sandals.' 

Jesus has entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf.

We have not made ourselves worthy by any special deeds, nor can we ever make ourselves worthy. 

Jesus has made us worthy.

We can never repay Him for all He has done. All we need do is take up our cross each and every minute of every day and follow Him. How hard is that? Very hard. But only from a human point of view. If we could only see everything from God's point of view.

In God's eyes, nothing is impossible.