IS THIS YOU?
I read recently about a woman with a little boy, born with a severely underdeveloped brain. Through the years she loved him, cleansed and clothed his body, fed and cared for him in every way and tried to teach him what little things she could. Once, after he had become, in terms of age, a man, the mother confided to a friend: “Although I’ve never begrudged my love and care for him, it has been my great sorrow that he doesn’t even know me and has never once acknowledged the love and care I’ve given him. He just lies there to eat, drink and sleep.”
In terms of your relationship with God, how do you identify with the child described above? Think about it: “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). “He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matt. 5:45). “It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not” (Lam. 3:22). “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Pet. 3;9).
Whatever your excuse or reason for not knowing God, for not loving Him, it is a bad and dangerous excuse or reason. Taking everything and everybody else out of the equation, why have you not — why will you not, respond to God’s love for you with “repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21)? See Rom. 3:10, 23; 5:12; 6:23; 10:8-13; John 5:24).
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