While We Were Yet Sinners...

You fear losing the privilege of God's presence, but His presence with you is not a privilege, it is a gift.

You fear the Lord will turn His back because of your sin and faithlessness. He will not turn away. His son died that you may experience the light of His presence.

You are nothing the most Holy God might be expected to desire, and yet, He does desire you; not by your merit, but for His own name's sake. It is because of who He is that you are accepted, and so when you are aware that you’ve sinned you do not need to fear rejection. You need only appropriate His presence through grace. God forgives. That He is able to forgive is not because of you, but because of Jesus Christ.

Rest, now, rest.


"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).