SHOP MANUAL PRINCIPLE #6.
GOD KNOWS AND GOD’S STILL “IN”
Still unconvinced? Maybe you still think or feel like the opposite is true. “Nah, God doesn’t want anything to do with me! Nope, I’m too far gone!” Let me shoot straight with you. Stop believing a lie! You’re wrong! Dude, Jesus told the story of the Prodigal Son to make it clear. Nobody’s too far gone! God’s waiting to catch each one of us out of the corner of his eye — coming home — so that we can experience the mind-blowing depth of his forgiveness, love and the miraculous restoration plan he has sketched out for the next leg of our lives. Want more proof? Chew on this for a while. The first chapter of the Book of Colossians, verses 21 and 22 say this:
“Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in our minds because of your evil behavior.”
Is that how you’re feeling? That your actions were so bad that God took a restraining order out on you. That you’re hopelessly far away and alienated from Him? Do you think that your behavior has made you His enemy? Well, check out the “Big Hammer” second part. If this doesn’t bust your wrong thinking loose, I don’t know what will…
“But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation.”
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1 comment:
Hi Matt! Great stuff. They way you write makes me really miss your analogies and insights. It brought back memories of ponderings such as "how you know if your dead" and "is your butt too big" Dead mice are still gross to me, but i will never forget that analogy. Only you could make a dead mouse biblical. There is another book in process called the Montana Chronicles that you might find interesting . . . the guys music is also pretty good. Check it out http://jasonholdridge.blogspot.com I will keep looking here for more. It truly was a refreshing read.
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