We all need to come back to the cross, at some point of other in our lives. It should be something we come back to daily, something we think of all the time. Yet, with the business of our everyday lives, it's so easy to forget why we're all here and what the basis of our faith depends upon.
Church today looked at impossibilities and how God makes promises to us, to overcome them. We were told the miraculous stories of new children being born, through the impossibility of infertility and reminded how God is "in the adoption business", that we are adopted into His family and are His children. It was a great preach and a great time of fellowship, but it's always easy to take it away and forget it by the time you reach the ol' homestead, which admittedly I did. But while listening to Lifehouse (a great band, check them out) I was reminded of a skit (such an American word) that some people had done to show Jesus' love for us, to one of the band's songs, Everything:
Please, if there is one thing you do today, check this out.
It brought me back to the cross, and showed me how much God loves me. It shows how He loves us so much He doesn't give up on us, but is always there, through each heavy sin we have in our lives, through every trial and in our darkest hour. It shows how He is continually pulling us to come closer to Him, through the misty haze of sin He keeps pulling and pulling, when all seems hopeless He is the hope, pulling and pulling. When all seems lost He keeps pulling, until He has you in His arms and even then it's not over. He sent His only son, to take all the weight of those sins and put them on Himself, until He could take no more and died. But our God is a God of impossibilities and Jesus rose again 3 days later. Just so that we could be with Him. So we can walk beside Him again, hand in hand and side by side. Isn't that just overwhelmingly amazing?
It is incomprehensible why someone so righteous, glorious and worthy would spend time taking me from darkness just to walk alongside Him, just so I can be His daughter. I'd love to think it's my personality and good looks (ha) that is the reason God wants to be my friend, but He created all that's about me and when I look at it, how can I come before the King of Kings. How can I have the audacity to speak to one so high and mighty?
It's simple in God's eyes, He loves me. He loves you, whether you know it or not. He loves you unconditionally and that is something I don't think I will ever understand, I don't think we're meant to. Knowing all of this, knowing how much my God loves me and wants me, there is nothing I can do but fall on my knees with my face down, in awe of Him. For He is glorious and He is an amazing Father. He made the ultimate sacrifice, that caused the maximum pain and I want to repay Him, I never can and never will be able to, because it's far too immeasurable a thing to 'repay'. But He has my heart and I want to spend the rest of my life seeking first the kingdom of God and living for Him.
So that one day, one day I can walk into heaven and see Him there in all His glory.
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