WE ARE WORTHY

There is none amongst us unworthy of God's love, I surely know this to be truth; for I have tasted of God's love, first hand. For about half of my life I was unwilling and unprepared to see this miracle for what it is. I was raised in a loving, religious and a spiritually healthy home, but I chose to actively rebel and fight the principals of a perfect and loving God! The choices I had been making and made later on in my life just blinded and pushed me farther and farther away from the light of Christ, which in essence, is His pure and perfect love! If anyone in life was ever worthy of feeling unworthy in this life, it would be me. I was so diluted in my thinking, that I was unable to comprehend the presence and intervention of our Saviors hand in the preservation of my mortal existence, on numerous occasions. I just wrote it all off as my incredible "good luck" or my wierd sixth sense or uncanny intuition and ability to read people or situations. It wasn't until very recently that a strange and devastating series of events dramatically changed my entire perspective and outlook on my entire life, while vacant in the light of Christ. I, in one of the most turbulent and lowest points of my life, could not have been farther from the immense love of Christ, so I thought. How mistaken was I, I was unaware of the true closeness of Jesus's love for me in my hardest of times! It was not until I was ready, that I began to understand the truth of God's hand in my life. I soon came to realize precisely how little a part I actually played in my own survival and the truth of what I had been doing in my years away from the LORD. It was a emotionally crushing experience but was immediately followed by the purest and most intense immersion of love I have yet to feel, in all of my life! It filled me with a joy and a peace that literally lifted me up as if on a cloud for 6 months in one of the worst places you could physically be, incarcerated. It was the turning point of my life, a pivotal moment where I was given the rich and beautiful blessing of becoming a renewed child of divine birth! That moment was my conversion from darkness to light! I see in retrospect, through the span of my life, that I truly wasn't the only one bearing the load amidst my severest of sufferings, although it may not have felt like it at those times, it is quite evident when I look back at those trials that I wasn't the only one at the "party"!! I have been blessed beyond measure in my life, I bear witness to the miracle of God's grace constantly in my life, on a daily basis! I've learned that just because we may feel unworthy or unloved by our Savior does not mean we are. God loves us the same irregardless of our choices, it's us, in actuality that move more or less distant to Christ, and it is the adversary that works to convince us otherwise. He knows our flaws and weaknesses and manipulates our thoughts to instill insecurities and doubts to drive us to the cold embrace of temptation and sin! But we must always remember that God is unchanging and constant in all things! He loves us infinitely and purely! We are all worthy and are deserving children of the Eternal Father, and He desires with every ounce of the fabric of his being to bless us and yearns for us to reach out for Him, to behold his loving and warm embrace on a personal level, that is if we allow him to do so! He will never force us, EVER, to come to him! He patiently waits for us to be ready to come unto Him, so that we may obtain the full measure of his deep and perfect love, and to reap the rewards of his blessings we receive when living in obedience to His commandments! He knows we are imperfect and will stumble sometimes over and over and over again, but it is up to us, to choose to get up and keep fighting the good fight! I leave with you my testimony that God loves us dearly, and we are all worthy of his love, no matter how bad we slip and fall! We will always be welcome to receive the blessings in store for us, if we but do the work necessary to obtain them! I say these things in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen!