Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Have you ever felt alone, forsaken, afraid, like you were sinking in mud so deep that it seemed it would go over your head? David felt that way, which is one reason why he wrote Psalm 130, which goes like this:
"Out of the depths I have cried to You, O LORD" (the word in all caps means it is the intimate, personal name the Lord gave to His people, Israel, of old). No matter how deep you have fallen into those "depths," nor how bitter is the regret and pain you feel for your sin, those "depths" are never too deep for the LORD to hear your cry for forgiveness.
David goes on to say, "There is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared [the word means, reverenced]" (vs. 4).
The reason why the LORD is so "reverenced" is not because of His almighty power and majesty, but because, as John says, "God IS agape" (1 John 4:8). He IS that kind of love, not simply that agape is one of the principles of His character.
This is why the divine Son of God humbled Himself to become one of us. He was totally incarnate, but He remained totally divine. He laid aside the prerogatives of His divinity and lived life on this planet like one of us. He took upon His sinless nature our fallen, sinful nature, to the extent that "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Cor. 5:21).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: February 24, 2009.
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