Accept His Love

I have been feeling lonely, condemned and unloved lately.  Years ago I would have never admitted this.  But Jesus brings and brought life to me.  From truths like these.  Sorry I have not written.  I have thought everyday about you.  I have been writing short quotes on fb if you can go there.  If not I will write in a couple of days.  Praying for each now to accept His love.  Me too!


David Wilkerson Today

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2012

ACCEPT HIS LOVE
by David Wilkerson
[May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011]

It does not matter what you do to try to clean yourself up. If you don't trust
Jesus to save you through His grace, all your righteousness is as filthy rags
in God's sight. Your flesh isn't accepted before God; it can't even be
reformed. All flesh was done away with at the cross and now a new Man has come
forth—the Christ-man—and true faith is having confidence in what He did for
you.

You may say, "I find it hard to believe that a troubled, failing Christian like
me could be precious to God. He has to be disgusted with me, because my life is
so up-and-down. I have problems I can't seem to get through. Oh, I believe He
still loves me but surely He is disappointed in me because I have failed Him so
often!"

Please understand: Isaiah's wonderful prophecy of grace (see Isaiah 43:1-5) was
spoken to a people who had been robbed, snared in holes and cast into
prison—all because of their own foolishness and unbelief. It was at such a
point that God said to them, "Now, after all your failures, I come to you with
this message of hope—and it is all because you are Mine."

I will never forget the pain I endured when one of my teenage children came to
me and confessed, "Dad, I've never once felt as if I have pleased you. I've
never felt worthy of your love. I feel like I've let you down my whole life.
You must be really disappointed in me."

Those words hurt. I embraced that tearful child, hurting deeply inside myself.
I cried as I told this child, "But you have always been special to me. You have
been the apple of my eye. When I'm on the road conducting crusades, I think of
you and my whole being lights up. Sure, you've done foolish, wrong things at
times but you were forgiven. You were truly sorry and I never once thought less
of you. You are nothing but a joy to me.”

So it is with many Christians in their relationship with the heavenly Father.
The devil has convinced them they have disappointed God and will never be able
to please Him. Consequently, they don't accept His love and they live as if His
wrath is always breathing down on them. What a horrible way to go through
life—and how pained God must be when He sees His children living that way.