As you may know, Jesus was no longer in the grave after the 3rd day, he escaped. He did just as He said He would. For us. Jesus escaped the grave for us. He went in to the grave suffering for every and any sin. Often, I am at fault of sinning daily without realizing it. Jesus suffered for – not only those sins – but also the sins of you and everyone else. WOW! Weighty, right!
He suffered so we wouldn’t have to; he spent nights in the grave so we could spend nights in heaven. Yet we have a hard time understanding how we could be so undeservingly free of our faults. (You have to learn from the faults too of course)
BUT we often dwell on our sins, putting ourselves into a grave, hiding ourselves from the freedom we have so graciously been gifted. It’s hard to receive an undeserved earthly gift. It is even harder to receive an undeserved, heavenly, eternal gift.
So instead we remind ourselves how undeserving we are, tearing ourselves down, and throwing ourselves into a grave that we’ve carved our own names on.
“What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to the law of sin.” Romans 7:24-25
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:1-2
Don’t you see how loved you are though?! Our Heavenly Father suffered for each of us individually because He didn’t want us to experience the grave! When you bring your struggles, faults and sins to the Lord you aren’t being ridiculed and thrown into a grave by Him. You are forgiven. You are reminded of how loved you are. God rolls that stone away and picks you up out of the grave.
You might be asking, “Kelly girl, why in the WORLD should I listen or understand this? How would you know?”
Well I, too, have thrown myself in a grave so ashamed of how unworthy I am. But like I talked about in my “as you are” blog, I have learned so much. God has shown me that he doesn’t care where I am right now, HE WANTS ME. There is no measure of sin, all sin is the same. He doesn’t care where I was yesterday or will be tomorrow, he still wants me, fully. God has shown me that it makes Him sad seeing me throw myself into a grave when He so graciously sent His Son for me. No matter how big I measure my sin, my scale is balanced. God’s scale is always equal and He wants me to see that too. He wants us to see that He doesn’t look at our sins, but at our hearts.
I want to invite you to pray, asking God what has caused you to throw yourself into a grave. Then ask Him to reveal himself to you – to pull you out of the grave. Pray and ask God to take the weight off your shoulders. I guarantee you will feel so free or I’ll give you your money back!!! (Ok jk… I don’t have any money to give you but I just feel like that’s what ads that are sure of themselves say and I am quite sure this will work).
