A beautiful crisp day, Father. Thank you for the infinite diversity of Your creation! Oh, the wonder of it all!

Romans 3:1-4 (<<click here to read the passage)

Dumping sand in the sea doesn’t really accomplish anything. A handful or a bucketful or a wheelbarrow full or a dump truck full – none of those would make a dent in “filling” the sea up. Even a thousand or a million times any or all of those would make a bit of difference. The seas and oceans of our world are not infinite, but they are most certainly vast! All told they are more than any of us – even all of us together – can conquer!

Humanity is inherently wicked. We are evil. We are steeped in sin from birth. And we, in and of ourselves, cannot do one thing about it! …but God can!

One thing I hear from people is that they are too far gone for God to ever forgive the egregious sin in their lives. They believe they are too bad to love. But let me tell you, with the greatest of certainty that absolutely nothing could be further from the truth!

In verse 3 Paul is speaking to the Jews but again it applies to all of us. He says,

“If some did not believe or were unfaithful [to God], their lack of belief will not nullify and make invalid the faithfulness of God and His word, will it?” AMP

Your individual sin is at the least a handful in the infinite holiness of God. It has no impact on Him whatsoever! Even if you think your sin is equal to a dump truck or a million dump trucks, it is the same! Your sin has never and will never change God!

God is God! He and His word are faithful, and we cannot undo it! As the Amplified Bible puts it, we cannot nullify or make invalid His faithfulness.

Paul answers his own question, “…does that mean God will be unfaithful? Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true.” V3b-4 NLT

So let nothing that you have done – or anyone you know who holds on to that lie – hold you back from reaching out and accepting what God offers us. And just as a reminder, He offers us pardon and forgiveness. The debt that we owe, He has paid! Jesus allowed Himself to be sacrificed on our behalf. There was no other solution. That was the only option! It cost Him everything, but He willingly gave it all up so that we could be redeemed…so that we could be welcomed back into the family with arms opened wide!

Thank You, Lord Jesus!

Oct 19th, 2022, Wed, 4:47 pm