Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Suppose you have made mistakes, and your life seems ruined. You've missed out on happiness. Your very nature has made it easy for you to fall into the pit. You stand on the outside of where the party is, others are happy where the lights are on and you're thrust out into cold darkness. There's no one to blame but yourself (you may feel); there's an enormous amount of "work" to "do" before you can even begin to make things "right"; it's daunting, so many humiliating confessions to make, wrongs to make right, and debts to pay. You feel it's hopeless. Might as well give up.
Can we say something that can "save" you from the ruin you dread?
A lady once wrote a widely famous book, Steps to Christ, with the first chapter entitled "The Sinner's Need of Christ." Then she thought better of it; "This is not the way to start!" she said to herself. So the second edition began with a chapter, "God's Love for Man." Your first (and last) step is not to do something (which you can't do), but to believe what you think you can't believe: God is a personal heavenly Father much different than your earthly father ever was--He personally regards you, thinks of you, yearns for companionship with you, respects you, honors you, misses you, longs for your presence by His side, is lonely without you, hungers for some contact with you, wants to hear from you, rejoices to forgive you, in short: LOVES YOU.
Is this hard for you to believe? It probably is, if you are remotely like Paul, "The chief of sinners." The hardest thing to "do" is to believe how good God's Good News is. We weren't born believing; it's contrary to our sinful natures. It's the only difficult part of being saved--learning to believe.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, found it just as difficult to believe as you do. In fact, much more so. Because His moment of truth came on His cross where He cried out in bitterest agony, "My God, why have You forsaken Me?" If you feel you are in hell, He knows what it's like. That's where He went to find you.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: January 12, 2002.
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