Are You Unworthy of God's Love?

     Today is such a wonderful and glorious day. Thinking back I’m reminded of early 2004 when "The Passion of The Christ" came out in theaters. At the time, I had been recently saved, but without the proper foundation fell back into a life of daily sin. I remember my neighbors inviting me to go to the show with them and their church. My neighbor’s husband had PRK (eye surgery) earlier that week and was still having visual disturbances. He wasn’t able to drive and couldn’t see words clearly to read. We went to the viewing regardless. When we got there, he was like, this is going to be fun, because he couldn’t even make out what was on the screen.

     I have to say, I’m not quite sure what I was expecting. I expected to be emotionally moved, no doubt, but not really sure what else I expected. I look back and besides all of the crying that I did in the movie, I don’t really remember much except for the whipping scene and the feeling I had at the end of the movie. At the end of the movie, eyes swollen from crying, I felt something release in me, although I can’t tell you what it was now. I remember saying, WOW, I knew he loved me and that he died for me, but really, WOW. I never knew that he LOVED me THAT much, that HE went through that much pain and endured all of that suffering FOR ME. Someone He didn’t know, hadn’t met, and who wasn’t even born yet. In that moment I finally got it. I never understood how God could sacrifice His only begotten SON FOR ME (John 3:16).

     What I failed to understand until that moment was that by sacrificing one child, he gained thousands of children. When I hear people say that they are unworthy to be saved or unworthy of God’s love, I feel like it’s a slap in God’s face because YOU still don’t get it. His sacrifice made YOU worthy. There is nothing that you can do that you can’t ask God to forgive you for, regardless of how awful it may be. Jesus’ sacrifice paid YOUR debt in full. In those moments where you doubt yourself, or start to feel sorry for yourself, YOU are allowing the devil to win. Because it is him who makes YOU feel unworthy, not God. The devil finds OUR weaknesses and magnifies them so that WE begin to feel unworthy. It is in those moments that YOU must be still and know that He is God, and that all things are possible through Him (Phil 4:13). In those moment's where you don't feel as though you can do that, PRAY, talk to Him, thank Him, praise Him, exalt Him, love Him, and BELIEVE in Him.

     Let’s flash back to the movie in 2004. Credits roll up and I turn to my friend’s husband and tell him, I so wish you could have read the subtitles so you could have followed along with the movie because it was so wonderful. Don’t get me wrong, it saddened me, but also made me happy because of finally understanding His love for me and that’s why I say wonderful. My friend said, “You won’t believe this but, it was the most amazing thing. I was sitting here, couldn’t see a thing on the screen and then the movie started. As soon as the movie started, the screen and words became crystal clear. I was able to read everything for the whole movie. When the credits started rolling, my vision became blurry again.” Dispute that. YOU tell me GOD doesn’t perform miracles in order to spread His message. That man just became a living testament of the power of GOD, and I was blessed to have witnessed it. In that moment I realized that it's not only about "The Passion of The Christ" but also "A Passion For Christ." How amazing OUR God is. I serve such a WONDERFUL and AWESOME GOD. What about you?