Our Only Hope

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

Our only hope is that the One who shares in all our pain shares in it as the pure and holy One. Jesus Christ is not the one who needs rescue He provides it. This is why we can go to Him to “receive mercy and find grace”. He Himself is not trapped in the pit of sin with us; He alone can pull us out. 

He is all that is all that will be, He is salvation. 

What elicits tenderness from Jesus is not the severity of the sin but whether we, the sinner, come to Him. Whatever our offense, He deals gently with us. 

But there is a sobering reminder. If we never come to Him, we will experience a judgment so fierce it will be like a double-edged sword coming out of His mouth at us. Yet if 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. 

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 this restraint on His part is not because He has a diluted view of our sinfulness. 

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