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I'm confident in quoting my pastor when I say, "God's not mad at you, He's mad about you!!!" If He wasn't, He'd have never sent Jesus in the first place. Ezekial 18:23 says, "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?"
Now, as far as not being deserving, there is no one worthy. Let's just look at my life for a minute. I've been with over ten girls, I'm not sure of the exact number anymore, and I can't even remember all of their names. I've done all kinds of drugs, from smoking weed, licking stamps, and snorting pills. I've been through violent arguments with my mother, and I've even committed breaking and entering in my younger days. These are just a few of the atrocities that I've committed. Now, how deserving am I? Thank God for Jesus, though. I couldn't make it without Him. Romans 3 says,
| 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
So please, brighten up. There is hope!! I hope I was maybe able to give you a little insight to be able to see that. I wanted to say, "Just trust God, and get over it," but I know that's completely unreasonable. I've suffered through some depression myself, and I finally got to a point so low that I just gave up. It was an amazing revelation that all I needed to do in the first place was to give up, and I wondered why I couldn't see it earlier. When I say give up, I don't mean that I gave up hope. Fortunately, I never lost sight of that. So just start trying to hope. Take your Bible, and start looking for the promises we have in Jesus. Just focus on those. Try not to pay attention to anything else, just look at that. To get you started, I give you Phillipians 3:8,9:
| 8 Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him, 9 not having a righteousness of my own, derived from the Law, but that which arises from faith in Christ--the righteousness which comes from God through faith. |
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