The True King

My heart tells me to pray to You, and I do pray to You, O LORD.  Psalms 27:8 NET

But there is a sobering reminder. If we never come to Jesus, we will experience a judgment so fierce it will be like a double-edged sword coming out of His mouth at us. Yet when we do come to Him my friends rest assured that as fierce as His lion-like judgment would have been against us, so deep will His lamb-like tenderness be for us.  

We will be enveloped in one or the other. To no one will Jesus Christ be neutral. 

Consider what all this means. When we sin, we are encouraged to bring our mess to Jesus because He will know just how to receive us. He doesn’t handle us roughly. He doesn’t scowl and scold. He doesn’t lash out, the way many of us have experienced at the hands of others. 

And all restraint on His part is not because He has a diluted view of our sinfulness, it is because God our Father, in heaven, is holy, humanity is His creation, we are loved by the true King, Jesus Christ.