God Does Not Flinch

Don’t you hate rejection?

We experience rejection on many levels and at odd moments in our day. 

The worst kind of rejection is the flinch.  You know the flinch.

~People look at a nasty wound and flinch.

~People hear a nasty story about your relationship breakup and they flinch.

~People hear about your financial woes and they flinch.

~People see an ugly side of your life and flinch.

I hate the flinch. 

Know what?  God doesn’t flinch.

He knows us, knows we are weak, and knows we sometimes make bad choices, but he doesn’t flinch.  Never. 

Remember King David?  He was the apple of God’s eye, yet he had a man killed, committed adultery, and he committed a few other sins, yet God never flinched.  II Samuel 11

Remember the woman caught in adultery.  Christ simply said “Go and sin no more”, but he didn’t flinch.  John 8:1-11

And then there was Zacchaeus.  He was despised by his peers, an outcast in social gatherings, he was a thief, and he had a somewhat shady reputation, yet Christ didn’t flinch.  He walked right up to that tree where Zacchaeus was perched, looked him in the eye, and invited him to come down so they could have supper together. Story of Zacchaeus

I don’t know what you've done, but regardless of what it may be, God will not flinch.

He WILL look at you with kind eyes.  He will have compassion for you, and He definitely offers forgiveness. 

And, oh yeah, He loves you with amazing love.

Love sometimes is an overused expression.  There is freshness in what Brennan Manning, another writer and speaker, says.  “God is very fond of you!”

I love that expression.  I relate to that image.  It speaks of being cherished, being adored, being cared for in more than a casual way. 

“God is very fond of me!”  Say that a few times before you close your eyes in sleep.  That is like a warm blanket on a cold night.

So here is what we have – We have a God who is fond of us and who loves us.  He invites us and calls to us.

Consider this:

“My father and mother may abandon me,

but God will take care of me.”

Psalm 27:10

God knows everything about you, EVERYTHING.  Yet He still loves you – and He doesn't flinch at the thought of you. 

He doesn't say “clean up first, then present yourself.”

He invites.  He calls to us.  “Come, my loved one.  My cherished one.  I am very fond of you.  Come to me.”

I could never imagine God flinching at anything in my life or yours. 

Accept this God who never flinches.

Please watch this.

Crystal Lewis – Come Just a You Are

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Come Just as You Are - Crystal Lewis

A Prayer for All of Us

God:

Sometimes we are disgusting.  We ooze with bad stuff, we harbor less than honorable thoughts, and we go to bad places.  We commit the seemingly unforgivable. 

Yet you offer forgiveness.  You offer hope in the middle of our mundane lives.

AMAZING!

Help us in our inadequacies.  

Accept our outstretched hand as we reach for you once again.

Catch us God.

Amen!

Pastor Mike

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