Maybe you’re like me and maybe you’re not. If you’re like me, then maybe you’ve had one of those reality check moments.
Those are the moments when you come to yourself and ask a question along these lines: “Did I really just do that?” “Did I really just say that?” “Did that thought really just cross my brain?”
Maybe you’ve followed up with the thought: “How can I really be saved if I just did/said/thought that? How can I really say I love Jesus and admit to that? I know Jesus can forgive sins, but will He really forgive me for that?”
It’s a scary vision when you catch a glimpse of what you would have been apart from the grace of God. It’s terrifying when you realize that there’s no evil or wickedness or vileness that you’re not capable of if left on your own apart from the saving power of the Cross in Jesus Christ.
I want to share with you something I just read from Brennan Manning that really blew my world apart (in a good way). It’s long, but it’s worth reading every single word.
“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands (see Revelation 7:9), I shall see the prostitute from the Kit-Kat Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, who tearfully told me that she could find no other employment to support her two-year-old son. I shall see the woman who had an abortion and is haunted by guilt and remorse but did the best she could faced with grueling alternatives; the businessman besieged with debt who sold his integrity in a series of desperate transactions; the insecure clergyman addicted to being liked, who never challenged his people from the pulpit and longed for unconditional love; the sexually abused teen molested by his father and now selling his body on the street, who, as he falls asleep each night after his last ‘trick’, whispers the name of the unknown God he learned about in Sunday school.
‘But how?’ we ask.
Then the voice says, ‘They have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.’
There they are. There *we* are – the multitude who so wanted to be faithful, who at times got defeated, soiled by life, and bested by trials, wearing the bloodied garments of life’s tribulations, but through it all clung to faith.
My friends, if this is not good news to you, you have never understood the gospel of grace.”
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What do you like doing? If you’re like I was… I couldn’t write a list, because I didn’t know myself. I had not learned to have fun and I had not explored my own personality. Learn to go for a walk if that’s what you like doing. Avoid people who are mean or nasty to you. Have a bubble bath with with EXTRA bubbles… and candles and your fav music and play with the bubbles!