Jesus Rejects
On the morning of September 11, 2001 at 8:45 a.m., a hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire.
At 9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes. Both buildings are burning at 9:03 a.m. and by 10:10 a.m.:United Airlines Flight 93, also hijacked, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh.
The World Trade Center’s north tower collapses from the top down as if it were being peeled apart, releasing a tremendous cloud of debris and smoke at approximately 10:28 a.m.
Out of 2,752bodies that were initially reported in this tragedy, only 1,527 have been positively identified.
As the years have snuck up on us and left since 9.11, the question arises in my heart: “Would God ever forgive someone for doing this? And for accusing God of being the initiator?!”
For us, as on fire believers, we know that we can always come into His awesome presence and find fullness of joy and forgiveness. No matter how stupid we’ve been. But what happens when we get in the way of ourselves? In other words, what happens if you slipped away from the anointing and did something as outrageous as killing someone? We know that Jesus died to forgive us, but could we ever forgive ourselves? Could we ever love ourselves again?
Too many times we have compared God’s love to the love that we have experienced in the world. For example: Have you ever had someone that you loved and respected hurt you? And hurt you in such a way that it literally hurt in the chest? It could have been a boyfriend, a girlfriend, or even a parent who you have felt rejected by. We love these people but their broken love has forced us to accept a false reality of what love truly is; therefore we end up treating ourselves the same way. We even get distorted expectations for God to treat us that way. And that is just a bunch of messed up junk!!!
In Acts 9:1 the Word of God says that “Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord..” He was doing everything in his power to get rid of Christians! To threaten them info fear and in need be to slaughter them!
During 9.11 Osama Bin Ladin, was in charge of destroying or “slaughtering” infidels aka, disciples of the Lord. Do you see a trend? In Acts 9, Saul had a face to face encounter with the Son of God and immediately had a life changing experience. Dude even got a new name. We all know about Paul going on to walk in the presence of God, doing extraordinary Miracles, writing 2/3 of the NT, and suffering for the Name of Jesus. God took the MOST UNLIKELY PERSON and used him for such a Glorious pursuit!
THOUGH, what do you think would have happened if Paul would have accepted God’s forgiveness but couldn’t forgive HIMSELF?? “Lord, I love you, but you are wrong…I will never be good enough for you……maybe the Blood of Jesus isn’t enough”. Pretty rough huh?
Every time that we let God in but we don’t forgive ourselves, it’s just as if we are saying that the Blood isn’t good enough! We are acting like JESUS REJECTS. We are king’s kids who don’t fit in around other king’s kids because of un-forgiveness with ourselves.
Paul was a modern day Osama Bin Ladin! People hated him and thought he deserved to rot in hell. He probably thought he deserved to rot in hell…..that is, until he forgave himself and came into the fullness of Gods Destiny for him!
Don’t be discouraged by the way the world treats you…even if they happen to be ‘believers’. NO ONE’S LOVE COULD EVER COMPARE TO THE LOVE OF GOD!
So stop comparing His love to anything else you have ever experienced! He is love. He loves you with no conditions! If the creator of Heaven and Earth, the creator of perfection and purity, could forgive you, …then you can forgive yourself. He desires to use you! He delights in you! He waits for your eyes to open every morning to experience the blessings that He has personally formed just for you!
Don’t miss out because you were misinformed about how awesome you are as His child.
Stop being a Jesus reject and start being the righteous in Christ!
Food For Thought: Don’t forget God has a plan for all of us….even Bin Ladin.
A. Evans