Too often, we look at ourselves with all our weaknesses and
imperfections and say of what good are we to God? Someone I know once said God
might like sinners but certainly not one like me. He said he had done
too many terrible things and there wasn’t any God will forgive him much less love
him!
Of a truth, we all don’t deserve the mercy of God. Scriptures
declare that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God – Romans
6:23 but God being an ever loving father forgives and never holds
grudges.
Let’s
get this straight. Nothing about us surprises God. Before we were formed in the
womb, He knew us (Jeremiah 1:5) and He doesn’t change his mind about us even
when we falter. He knows everything we will say and do before we do it. He knows the day, the hour, the second that
we will do something silly but instead of Him preparing His wrath for us He is
ever ready to forgive us the very instance we err and extend mercy toward us.
If
you feel or have ever felt like you have had a messed up life, no worries! Don’t
be hard on yourself. Don’t walk around like you are of no good because
you have done so many wrongs. God loves the ugly. GOD’S LOVE IS NOT
RESTRICTED TO WHEN WE THINK WE HAVE DONE WELL. HE LOVES US EVEN WHEN WE MAKE
SILLY MISTAKES AND FAIL.
Remember Moses? The one in the bible..! Moses was a murderer
and a fugitive from justice in Egypt yet God used this same (murderer) Moses to
bring out the Israelites from Egypt. This (murderer) Moses wrote the Ten
Commandments and wrote the first five books of the bible.
Remember David? He committed adultery and conspired to murder
the innocent husband of Bathsheba his best friend. David was a cold blooded
murderer, a liar, a cheat, a chronic womanizer yet this same David was a poet
and wrote most of the books of Psalm and Proverbs and in case you didn’t know, David
is the great grandfather of Jesus Christ.
God called David a man after His heart yet David
broke every of God’s command in the bible.
If God could use Moses, considering all he was, if God could
love, use and call David a man after His heart given all that
he was, then God loves everybody and can use anybody regardless of what that
person may appear to be.
We live in a culture where people (even Christians) are so
quick to point at others faults forgetting that it is by grace that they are
saved. Sometimes we just like to take the transgressions, faults, weakness and
imperfections of others and crucify them with them.
Fault finding as I know is not a fruit of the spirit. If all
we do is beat the drum of people’s weaknesses, they will lose confidence in themselves
and when people lose confidence in themselves, they will not want to get close
to God.
We must not judge people with their faults and weakness
because once upon a time, we were like them and even all that we were, God
loved us.
God
knows every hair on our heads and knows every inch of our soul. We may feel like we have ugly lives but He
loves us regardless; God loves the ugly and He is sitting
with His arms open waiting to receive us.
Remember
Jacob was a cheat, Peter had a bad temper, David had an affair, Noah got drunk,
Jonah ran from God, Saul (before he became Paul) was a murderer, Gideon was
insecure, Miriam was a gossip, Thomas was a doubter, Zaccheus was short, yet God
loved them all.
In conclusion, I
want to say if you don’t know Jesus, this note was written with you in mind.
You may have had a broken heart or an ugly life but Jesus is saying to you
today come! Come! Come! God loves the ugly!
Just Sharing My
Thought
Listen. Laugh. Smile. Relate. Share.
