Something that never stops amazing me, sometimes to the point of overwhelmed tears, is GRACE. You know when you really mess up and just want to crawl in a hole and never come out? Well despite the urge to cower in shame after coming face to face with the filth that is sin, God never stops seeking us. He is just or He wouldn't be God, so He HATES sin. At the same time, he is LOVE, and he loves us purely and unconditionally, or He wouldn't be God. He also has a way of working things in such a way that coincidence is impossible. This week I had a "I am a filthy sinner" moment. And despite my wanting to bury my head in the ground I decided to open my Bible to a chapter that had just been suggested to me the night before. Not a coincidence. The scripture was from Hosea 3 and here are some thoughts from it: Even after we sin over and over, God still pursues us. He is jealous for us. So he seeks us out over and over and then in the words of verse 5,"Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days."
I am so thankful that the Lord receives me back into His arms when I run as fast as I can back to Him, trembling and ashamed. He sees Christ in me and forgives and forgets. God is so good!
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