God made us to be dependent on Him. He designed us knowing that we would fail time and time again, while He would remain endlessly patient. We are all slow learners when it comes to God. It takes a whole lifetime, yet Jesus still calls us His children. Like sheep, people have a knack for getting lost repeatedly.
Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe that while we mess things up every day, that God could still love us. But maybe we’re all a little like human origami and the more creases we have, the better.
We sometimes think God can’t use us because of how we are at the moment. But Jesus wants us to participate no matter what condition we are in. Say a cake falls in a parking lot. My life is like that cake, full of small rocks and asphalt, broken relationships, failure, sadness, unwanted debris. But God calls us to come to Him so he can scrape together the pieces of our brown lives and allow Him to use them. Despite everything we do wrong, God allows us to be served up anyway! He loves us despite the grit and faults and failures! We can’t let our rocks and gravel get in the way of us being used!
We think we are too broken for God to do anything good with us?? Often times, the broken people get used more, probably because God has more pieces to work with!! God wants to use us not just when we are broken, but BECAUSE we are broken! God wants US, broken people, to be followers and participants. He calls people who trip over their own laces, people who can’t figure out how to open a plastic bag to build His kingdom!
If we are willing, He serves us up, asphalt and all.
Then He sends us out to tell everyone that there’s plenty of room, free food, conversation, adventure, and a wonderful and generous Host who has invited us by name! He loves them all by name, but He isn’t going to force them to come! He keeps saying there’s more room for those who really want to come! God loves when people WANT to get to know Him. He knows our sadness and brokenness we want to hide from Him, but He sends His people out to look anyway.
God doesn’t get mad when we miss the mark. He sees our failed attempts, then scoops us into His arms, gets our blood all over His shirt, and carries us away to get healed.
God draws a big circle of grace around everyone, and whispers “You’re all in.” There’s some people who think they’ve wandered too far outside of the circle, but He still continues to say, “You’re all in.”
God isn’t upset with you, He isn’t ignoring you. If you don’t hear God, it’s because we all have selective hearing. He communicates His will and grace and power to us through flowers, other people, an uncomfortable sense, joy, goose bumps, talent, or appreciation we acquire over time.
It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, where you’ve been, or what you will do or say. He still loves you, and His grace for you is never ending.
Wanna hear some great songs about grace?
Broken Vessels by Hillsong
Grace like Rain by Todd Agnew
This is Amazing Grace by Phil Wickham
Thank you Jesus for your amazing, abounding grace that washes over me.
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