Monday, May 5, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
God can't love me. Can he?
JMJ
My pastor once said, "There is nothing you did to make God start loving you, and there's nothing you can do to make him stop."
I think we all, at one time or another have said this or thought this to ourselves, especially if our lives have been or still are full of sin. "God can't love me after what I did to ________", or "If he knew what I was into, he wouldn't want anything to do with me." The reality is that, God does want something to do with you, and that is to be your Father. Alot of times I think we get the image of God just being the creator of the world. When the truth is he wants to be in relationship with you. He wants to be your Father.
And that is the whole purpose of this blog. Not to use it as a journal, though I may have something to say here and there, but to let everyone know, and come to believe, that you are loved. Loved by your creator, God the Father!
The blog description is from The Parable of the Lost Son in Luke's Gospel. We see that the story is focused around the father, and most of the time, alot of us can see ourselves as the lost son, "collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritence on a life of dissipation." Yeah! We can see that can't we? Take our stuff, leave the faith, leave prayer, leave church, and party it up. And then like the lost son, we eventually crash and burn, or as it says about the lost son, "When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need." We've all had severe famines in our lives, and all of us are in dire need in one way or another. So when the famine strikes we want to turn back to God, but we may say, 'After all I did, he doesn't love me.' Oh! But he does love you, and not just love you, but is searching you out WITH COMPASSION!! See, that's where the title comes in. Pretty cool eh?? As we are wasting our lives away in sin, God the Father is looking at you and me WITH COMPASSION.
Okay, you have to read the story for yourselves now. Luke, chapter 15, verse 11 it starts. Check it out, if your not doing anything for lent yet, read this and put yourselves in each of the characters in the story, you may find something out about yourself that you never knew. God is ALIVE and is real. He wants you as his son or daughter, because the reality is you are God's children and just like if you have children, you want to run to them, embrace them and kiss them, but they have to turn toward you first.
Let me know what you think. Be honest. Peace.
My pastor once said, "There is nothing you did to make God start loving you, and there's nothing you can do to make him stop."
I think we all, at one time or another have said this or thought this to ourselves, especially if our lives have been or still are full of sin. "God can't love me after what I did to ________", or "If he knew what I was into, he wouldn't want anything to do with me." The reality is that, God does want something to do with you, and that is to be your Father. Alot of times I think we get the image of God just being the creator of the world. When the truth is he wants to be in relationship with you. He wants to be your Father.
And that is the whole purpose of this blog. Not to use it as a journal, though I may have something to say here and there, but to let everyone know, and come to believe, that you are loved. Loved by your creator, God the Father!
The blog description is from The Parable of the Lost Son in Luke's Gospel. We see that the story is focused around the father, and most of the time, alot of us can see ourselves as the lost son, "collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritence on a life of dissipation." Yeah! We can see that can't we? Take our stuff, leave the faith, leave prayer, leave church, and party it up. And then like the lost son, we eventually crash and burn, or as it says about the lost son, "When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need." We've all had severe famines in our lives, and all of us are in dire need in one way or another. So when the famine strikes we want to turn back to God, but we may say, 'After all I did, he doesn't love me.' Oh! But he does love you, and not just love you, but is searching you out WITH COMPASSION!! See, that's where the title comes in. Pretty cool eh?? As we are wasting our lives away in sin, God the Father is looking at you and me WITH COMPASSION.
Okay, you have to read the story for yourselves now. Luke, chapter 15, verse 11 it starts. Check it out, if your not doing anything for lent yet, read this and put yourselves in each of the characters in the story, you may find something out about yourself that you never knew. God is ALIVE and is real. He wants you as his son or daughter, because the reality is you are God's children and just like if you have children, you want to run to them, embrace them and kiss them, but they have to turn toward you first.
Let me know what you think. Be honest. Peace.
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