Oh Lord It's Hard To Be Human

"But you love me anyway.  It's like noting in life, that's I've ever known, yes, you love me anyway.  Oh Lord, how you love me."

As far as I'm concerned there are only two absolutes in my life.  One, I'm definitely human and two; God chooses to love me in spite of myself.  That really is amazing when I stop and think about it. The love of our Heavenly Father is remarkable.  What really gets me is that there is absolutely nothing that I can do to earn it.  There is nothing that I can do to deserve it, never the less, He continues to give it away "freely" to each one of us, even the ones who flat out reject Him.  "For He gives His sunlight to both the evil and the good, and He sends rain on the just and the unjust alike."  Matthew 5:45b.

I mean think about it; we are nothing special because we love God. Rather, we are special because He loves us.  I don't know about you but that just gives me warm fuzzes all over.

When I think about "all" the times that I've fallen short of His commandments I'm over whelmed by the fact that He still even wants to talk to me.  Yet, each time that I have fallen short, and confessed my mistake He has always said, "I-yes, I alone-will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again."  Isaiah 43:25.  In my opinion this is one of the most powerful verses in the entire Bible.  God doesn't say that He forgets our mistakes for our sakes, He say's that He forgets our short comings for His sake!  He wants to love us!  Praise God!  He genuinely wants to love us!  That is a remarkable, humbling, thought.

I think that the reason that He chooses to do this is because He's Papa.

Although I am imperfect, I'm  a parent. And being a mother or father is the closest thing that I can think of to anything that even closely resembles the love of God.  My nine year old can definitely test and try my patience.  She can really make some bad choices and she has.  With each unwise choice that she's ever made (and believe me, she's made them) I still love her, I've never stopped, even when her actions mean administering a consequence.  I address the situation that's immediately at hand, hand down the sentence and then I move on.  This is exactly what God does!

Jesus said that if we as imperfect and wicked people know how to extend love and good things to our children, how much more so  can our perfect father in heaven do so for His.

At the beginning of this blog I quoted the lyrics to a song: "He loves me anyway."  These are not just pretty words; they are truth.  God has loved me my entire life and I'm just now starting to realize just how much.

So, is it hard to be human?  Yes.  Do we make mistakes?  Yes.  However, I'm here to tell you that God loves you in spite of everything, and He loves you through everything.  Not because of what you've done, but because of who He is. And who is He?  He's PAPA. He is love.  He simply can not be anything else. Wow!