Each of Us

The reality is we are all unstable and unsure wanderers through life. Each one of us. Unfaithful, unwilling, and unable to find salvation for our own souls. Each of us. And deep-down we all know it to be true, but deep-down, are we okay with it? Are we really okay to acknowledge our broken state?

It’s how to hear the Good News.

Because when we come to the reality that we are lost and acknowledge our dire need to be found. When we stop to see and agree, yes agree, that we are unable to continue on to find life on our own. When we know how desperate we are because we just can’t find our way, never mind keep our way. That’s when we allow God to step in. For that’s when we know we need God to step in.

And it is good.

You need God to step in, and God loves stepping in.

That’s right. It’s the Good News! God loves stepping in! He came for you because you need Him. You can’t do it, but He can, so He made a way for you. For each of us to be saved, God made a way. If only we’d ask Him to step in.

It’s the beauty of being weak and the peace of letting go. When we stop to ask, He takes over (Jeremiah 6:16). It’s the assurance of surrendering and giving up the fight. When we stop to ask, He sets free (John 8:36). He gives grace and mercy in our time of need (Hebrews 4:16). Every time. The moment we stop to ask Him to step in.

That’s the freedom of being a child of God. Freedom in Christ Jesus is the freedom to ask for, and to receive, mercy and grace from the One Who is able. Every time.

Each of us, in need of salvation. Each of us, desperate for life. Each of us, able to receive grace and mercy in our time of need from the One Who came to set free, Christ Jesus our Lord!

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“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” - Hebrews 4:16 ESV

“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak...” - Ezekiel 34:16 ESV

“For freedom Christ has set us free...” - Galatians 5:1 ESV