God Loves Sinners

God loves sinners. He loves you and me, in all our weaknesses, frailties and imperfections. Those are nice words, How about our wretchedness, debauchery, and depravity. Yes, He loves us in all that too. So much does God love each one of us in our hopeless sinful state that he took on human flesh and came to earth to save us, to redeem us.

We are the object of his love, the apple of his eye. In our carnal minds, we don’t know this, we don’t believe it. We know ourselves, we, each one of us, know our own thoughts, our own lostness. We try to imagine that maybe God doesn’t see. Maybe He doesn’t realize the depth of the waywardness that dwells within the halls of our minds. At least we hope He hadn’t noticed. This is a vain hope for He knows every detail, every thought, word and deed, though no one may see, He sees.

This knowledge, King David states in the Psalms, is too wonderful for him. He is in awe of God’s omniscience. Why would it be wonderful that God knows all the bad? Why would David say it is wonderful when his works included adultery and murder?! Could it be because God’s love for David was so great, so all consuming, that David knew there was nothing he could do, to lose God’s love, His faithfulness, and kindness? David knew that God understood what an awful sinner he was. He knew God saw it all, yet loved him, with an everlasting never-ending love. He couldn’t wear God’s love out, and neither can we.

For what kind of love would it take, to leave heaven, and all the glory of a king, the King of Kings, and come to earth, to be depised, and rejected, scorned, and crucified, for a pure love for the creation, that only bitterly rejected you? God’s love, that is the answer. You can’t wear out his love for you, or convince him to reject you, once you have received Him, and his love gift, eternal life through his Son, Jesus Christ. It can’t be done. He promises to His own, I will never leave you, nor forsake you. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life and will not come into judgment but has passed from death to life.

If you have put your hope in the Lord Jesus Christ and believed on Him for salvation, you will never be left, abandoned, or cast away. Never. Once you are His child, you are forever his child. He promises, “you shall never perish.”

Have you been feeling that God is angry with you? Have you wondered if you have sinned just once too often and He’s done with you? No, He will never be done with you, until He faithfully brings you home to himself, then his work is done. He is a faithful creator, a faithful father, a faithful Saviour, and He who began a good work in you will complete it unto the day of redemption. That is His promise to us.

Aren’t you glad God is so much higher than us, He is God! He cannot fail. He will never fail you. His love won’t fail. Will you trust Him?