We all have been in situations where someone or some people doubted our abilities, people who felt like we didn’t measure up. Consider situations where people bypassed you to pick someone else just because they thought you were insufficient. You also get these feelings when people criticize you, talk badly about you, and drag your name through the mud. These moments can be excruciating.
Many times, these negative vibes and words spoken over us often stain our memories, which will most likely create a lack of self-confidence, and passion, feeling rejected to the point where we don’t even want to do good to others anymore.
The more I think of how we feel when these things happen to us, the more I think of how God may feel as we tend to do the same things to Him daily.
How often do we doubt His power, thinking He doesn’t have what it takes? How many times do we choose mere men over Him? How many times have we picked the cares of this world, the anxiety, the fear, the abuse, and the depression over His love simply because we don’t think He is enough?
I’m so grateful that God is not driven by His feelings as we are; otherwise, there would be no Jesus to save humanity. Because of His love for us, He sent His only begotten Son knowing that we were going to reject and nail Him to the cross. Therefore, our misunderstandings of the Creator cause us to mishandle the Godhead most of the time.
God has a heart just like we do, and I wonder how He feels when we betray Him, limit, reject, ignore, or misrepresent Him in life. How big is God’s heart and what kind of heart does He have that even when we misunderstand Him, we are still precious in His sight?
Perhaps you may think that you are the only one who has rejected and misunderstood Him but let me remind you that we all have done it at some point in life. And none of us can draw near Love unless He draws us near Him.
God’s name has been distorted since Lucifer was in heaven. He lied about God and turned some of the angels against Him. Therefore, Lucifer and his angels were cast out from heaven. Since then and up until now, Lucifer who is now Satan, has not stopped and will not stop defaming God. Hence, we are now living in a fallen world.
He did the same thing to Jesus while He was here on earth; he is still at it and will continue to do the same thing to God’s people until Jesus comes back.
I read a book called “God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist, and Racist?” by David T. Lamb which dissects the character of God by addressing common labels of the God of the Old Testament.
For example, some people believe that the God of the Old Testament (God the Father) is an ‘angry’ God whereas the God of the New Testament (Jesus the Son) is a ‘loving’ God as if they are two separate Deities. And David T. Lamb, explains that God’s violence in the Old Testament was not random or unreasonable, it was always a result of disobedience or a way of escape for His people.
As human beings, when our reputations are on the line, we will do all that we can to preserve it, we will even go the extra mile to prove our doubters wrong. Believe it or not, God did the same thing, except that He did it selflessly. God gave His only Son as a ransom for all people, and everything was already planned before the foundation of the world.
No one else would choose to protect His reputation by offering Himself up as a sacrifice; only Jesus. He came to set the record straight once and for all, and He did it by leaving His throne to die on the cross blamelessly.
Jesus’ love and sacrifice were questionable back then and are still unconvincing by many today, even among Christians. However, if we fix our eyes on Jesus and ask Him to open our hearts, He can help us understand through the Holy Spirit, that what He did on the cross on that special day, was the greatest act of Love that humanity will ever experience. And He is more than enough!
SCRIPTURES
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” John 3:16
“The glory that you have given me, I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent Me and have loved them even as you have loved Me.” John 17: 22-23
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