The other day it was minus 5 degrees here and there was a hard, harsh frost when I looked out the window, everything was white as could be with ice! Then the sun came up and it began to gradually melt.
Life can be a bit like that, can’t it? Everything seems hard and harsh when things are going wrong and situations don’t seem to be turning round quite as soon as we’d like them to. Sometimes even our hearts can become hard with unbelief and we find it difficult to receive what God is saying or wanting to do for us, because of discouragement or disappointments and we can feel cold or distant towards Him. Maybe we’ve all known that experience at some time?
But I’m here to remind anyone who feels that way, all is not lost!🙂 God is still the same, He is still with you even if you have grown cold. He hasn’t gone anywhere and He’s waiting for you to turn your face to Him once again and let Him shine the warmth of His love into your heart and let it melt your hard places and bring healing peace into all areas of your life.
If ever I doubt His love for me I think about the day He went to the Cross. I see Him stagger and fall on the road under the weight of the wooden cross He was carrying. His back was so badly lacerated, He was covered in blood, He was so beaten up, He should have been in intensive care but He still had to endure the crucifixion for us. I look at His hands and feet and see them pierced with huge nails for us. I look at His brow and see the scars where the crown of thorns was pressed onto His head. I see the gash where a soldier pierced His side with his spear as yet more and more blood flowed. I look into His eyes and see His great love and compassion for us, as after hours of torment He finally said “It’s finished”.
What was finished? Our separation from His loving Father. Our sin, our hardness of heart had all been put on Him. We have constant open access now to go to our Heavenly Father at any time. We’re forgiven, accepted and approved by Him in Jesus. Jesus paid the price.
So why not turn to Him afresh today? Ask Him to take away any coldness in your heart and to give you a new tender, responsive heart. Know the warmth of His care enfolding you and just bask in His great love for you as He let’s you know you’re safe in His arms, no matter what’s happened or is going on in your life. Thank You Lord.
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