Jesus Christ Did Love Me
What made me love Jesus wasn’t that all of a sudden I figured how to do life. What made me love Him is that when I was at my worst, when I was at my lowest point, when I absolutely could not clean myself up and there was nothing anybody could do with me, right at that moment, Jesus said, “I’ll take that one. That’s the one I want.” You know the Bible calls the church Christ’s bride. So it’s like standing before Jesus, completely exposed, all of our flaws, and failures, insecurities and worse than that our sins are right there in front of his face, and against all reason and rationale, the song of grace becomes startling, exhilarating true because the groom looks at us and declares us beautiful. Spotless. righteous. Justified. This is the gospel. It is important to admit, believers in Jesus, that Christians are not more moral than anyone else. The essence of the gospel and what we celebrate is not that “we can” but that Jesus Christ did.
