given.up.on.the.world?
Note: This is an older post from Mar 24, 2008 that came up from a plug-in I recently installed. After re-reading it, I felt like I should re-post it for today.
I was approached Sunday morning after church by one of our folks who wanted to share with me that her ex-husband, his new wife and their son had started a personal relationship with Jesus Christ a few days earlier. I had heard many very disturbing and alarming stories about this couple. When she shared this good news, I realized that I had given up on them, and was immediately convicted by the Holy Spirit.
I think it is easy to look at the state of the world and give up on it, especially seeing how far people are from God’s standard. However, if we look at our own lives, even those of us who have enjoyed a long relationship with Jesus, we should realize that we still miss the mark by a great distance. The love of God transcends all understanding. Even as our heart testifies to the experience of measures of His love, we can never speak words appropriate enough to describe it. Realizing this ought to drive us to our spiritual (if not physical) knees.
His grace is greater than ALL my sin – and ALL of their sin too. I repent for giving-up on this family, and for losing hope for the world to be redeemed by the great “I AM”.
Sometimes when I write things I wonder if I am the only person on earth who feels like this. Am I alone?
I'm feeling really convicted by reading this post. And to be honest, it's with family. I can't give up. We can't give up.
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yay! I'm not alone
praying for you and your family, buddy.
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So true. It is not up to us to give up or in…we are to continue sharing God's word and love. Salvation is God's domain, we are just the messengers.
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What I lament the most is the loss of relational opportunities because I blinded myself.
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I'm there as well.
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You are definitely not alone. I think we can too easily justify giving up on people because they aren't 'receptive' or we say they're just not 'ready' yet. This may be true, but God didn't stop pursuing us when we rejected Him over and over. His love wouldn't allow it. I want to be filled with this kind of love, and I know it won't give up.
Thanks for the powerful reminder.
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I often wonder what Jesus was thinking and "seeing" as he weighed the cross in the Garden of Gethsemane that night… Did he see how many of us would reject him over and over?
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Thanks for the reminder!
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