Do you ever feel like your Christian life depends entirely on you? Sometimes it feels like the whole thing is resting on the thin ice of your personal consistency or devotion, right? Do you ever think that a bad day or a few skipped quiet times puts your whole relationship with Jesus on the skids? If so, you’re not alone. So many folks see it this way. We’re told to cling to the Lord, to follow Him and to remain faithful. The thing is, all that stuff is good, but it’s very important that in the midst of all that you remember something else that’s very important: the status of your relationship with Jesus does not depend on what you do or don’t do. Jesus started this relationship. It wasn’t your idea. You didn’t choose Him. He wanted you. Before He said, “Let there be light” He knew He wanted you and picked you to be His very own. Jesus pursued you first. He set His heart on you and chased you down through the depths of your hurt, wrong, pain and madness. He fought sin, death and hell to have you and He said that nothing can ever snatch you out of His hand. You’re not holding onto Him. He’s holding on to you. John tells us Jesus “had to go through Samaria” because He was chasing someone down. He went to find a blind man He had healed just to encourage Him. He sought out sinners, the poor, the oppressed and us. He left Heaven on a mission of love to give us the thing we could never earn, no matter how devoted or consistent we think we are. This grace you stand in doesn’t depend on you.
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