How can it be… I still cannot fully grasp it, but yet I receive it…
All of my life, buried beneath the layers of my heart were all the questions without answers…
We were happy; the two parents, my siblings, a home, vacations and our annual church attendance on Easter…
Not lacking anything, it all seemed well… And then the divorce, oh so heart wrenching…
The lights went out. Darkness and despair…sorrow and hopeless magnified…
Game face on, survival mode and fast forward…now doing life on my own… Brave yet vulnerable and exposed…
One bad choice after another, having no clue that it was in reality, SIN and a life without Him…
Three letters (s-i-n) … with such a profound consequence, yet no one ever mentioned it, not family nor friend…
Not even the worldly pursuits that I worshiped, nor the Islam “god” that I prayed to for ten long years…
In that “religion” there was no peace, no acceptance, no accountability and no hopes of eternity…
Completely unaware of “The Person Jesus Christ” who walked among us over 2000 years ago…
This Triune God saw me, had His loving eye on me the entire time…even in my sin…even in my pride…
How could it be that HE would send HIS Beloved one and only Son to die for me, for us…all of mankind…
Why? What kind of God…what kind of love…and what kind of sacrifice was this?
Shhhhh…is what the Holy Spirit was whispering…and then He spoke so crystal clear…
The evil one has deceived you…he wants to be “God” and he wants to befriend you…lure you…enslave you…
But God…being rich in mercy wants to befriend you…lure you…and restore you…
By faith, through grace…Jesus is extending His loving hand out to you…
Father I’m sorry I’ve sinned…please forgive me, through my tears I pray…
BEHOLD… I’m now His beloved, I’m cleansed and forgiven, finally free to be who He created me to be…
Adopted into HIS family and secure for all of eternity…exhale…in awe I wonder…how can this be?
John 3:16-21 is true…For God so loved the world…and that includes me…
Forever His, forever saved…a beloved child of the God Most High!
