Meditation 4

There are times in the believer’s life when nothing sounds sweeter to his ear than free grace, total pardon and unconditional love from the God of all things. The sweet melodies of constant attention and affection from our caring and kind Father seem more wonderful than we have the capacity to take in. 

But there are other seasons in our lives when the curse of sin seems not to be broken in our lives, when thinking about the free grace of God fills us with shame at who we are and what we’ve done. When the unconditional love of God for us feels like a weight upon our shoulders, pressing down to crush us. There are times when we feel the corruption of our body, mind and soul is so great that no person should love us, and certainly a Holy God will not love us. The pollution of sin penetrating everything we are, and we feel filthy. 

In those dark days of the soul, the very thought of the love of God fills us with guilt, reminds us of our shame, exposes our unworthiness, reveals how ungrateful we are of the tender kindness of God and how our hypocrisy touches the very core of who we are. 

Dear weak and stumbling Christian, remember that this Great and Holy God of the universe loved you before you ever had a single good thought toward Him. When you were His enemy, He loved you. When you were dead in your rebellion and sin, He loved you. When you had incurred an eternal, unpayable and endless debt, the King of Glory loved you. 

All the sheep of Christ are diseased and weak and He loves them, and therefore He loves you. God takes care of his poor, weak, helpless and hurting children. He has never lost a single one of them and therefore you will never be lost. He has never stopped loving a single one of his children, and therefore He will never stop loving you. 

Let the Love of God comfort you in your weakness, temptation, sin and pollution, and cause you to return to Him in full hope of endless pardon and eternal love. There is no shadow of turning with Him, and if He has loved you once, He will love you always. 

Lord, I am weak and constantly stumble and fall. I am corrupted, dirty and weary; you are the only one who can bind up my broken heart. Therefore, I come to you, fully confident that in you there is forgiveness of sins for all who call upon your name, and therefore for me.