The God I serve today is not the same God I've served over so many decades. And it's not Him who has changed. I've changed. Or, more accurately, He has changed me. He has changed me so that I can see Him more clearly, and get to know Him a little better as He really is. I'm only just beginning to scratch the surface on all of this, and I'm discovering that He is so different to what I thought I knew, and what I was taught, and what I in turn taught others. He is Altogether Good and He loves (me) unconditionally. He loves (me) with an all-pervasive and overwhelming love. I don't have the words to even begin to express what I'm starting to glimpse. God loves me! Not the presentable me, but the me that I'm sure that no-one could possibly love, and that others only get to glimpse on the worst of days when all the facades slip. God loves me, and not just the person I think He wants me to be. This is not mere wordplay. When Jesus descended to the lowest place, becoming sin for us, He did so that He could save us from our sin. But what we easily miss is that He did it in such a way as to save us in our sin. That He could draw near to us right there in all of our lostness and waywardness and brokenness and ugliness and mess. He immersed Himself in the mess, our mess, so that He could embrace us right there in our mess, no matter how messed up we are. And this is always true. He is always near, and always ready to embrace us, believer and unbeliever alike. This is Love and this is who He is! #Gospel #GoodNews #SoMuchGoodNews ... See more
