Sometimes when you've been hurt and rejected it's hard to feel loved. People say that they love you and may even show it, but you don't even believe that you are capable of being loved. The world has beaten you, injured, you, knocked you down and left you broken. And you've done your own fair share of beating yourself up. You wonder how anyone could possibly love you when you don't even love yourself!
That's one of the many great things about Jesus. He was despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. He knows what rejection and loss feel like. But The Lord has laid on Him the iniquities of us all. I like the way this scripture is written in the message version of the Bible:
"He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried - our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him - our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost. We've all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong, on him, on him. He was beaten, he was tortured, but he didn't say a word. Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered and like a sheep being sheared, he took it all in silence." ~Isaiah 53:3-8
Cast your cares on Jesus for He cares for you! (1 Peter 5:7) His love is unconditional. Whatever you've done wrong, He will forgive you if you simply ask Him to. He's not mad AT you, He's mad ABOUT you! He loves you! Invite Him into your heart. Ask Him to be your Lord and Savior. He's a gentleman. He won't force His way in. Invite Him in.
Romans 10:9 tells us "that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Because of Jesus' death on our behalf, all we have to do is believe in Him, trusting His death as the payment for our sins - and we will be saved! Romans 10:13 says it again, "for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins and rescue us from eternal death. Salvation, the forgiveness of sins, is available to anyone who will trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Repent now, accept Him as your Savior and new life can begin!
