Is it that God could reject?

To the one who is going through a moment of doubt, here are some thoughts.

Can God still forgive? I have strayed so far. Have I committed the irreparable? Can God rehabilitate me?

My position is hopeless. Wherever I turn, I see no way out. I feel like I'm in a net with no way to escape.

No matter how hard I try to be as the Lord wants. I have tried and tried again. I will never succeed.

To the one who feels that God is no longer favourable, that He can no longer be there because of the gravity of a misstep, that He has rejected us; in the face of these deceptive impressions, here are some unchanging and comforting truths, God's perspective as revealed in the Scriptures. You will read these truths today. Read them again in a month, in a year, ten years, thirty or fifty years, they will not have changed an inch and will always be just as true.

Psalms 113:7-8: "He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; to make them sit with princes, with the princes of His people.

The dunghill does not seem to be eliminatory because it is from there, from the depths of his dunghill, that God can go and fetch someone to elevate them and make them great according to His standards.

1 Corinthians 1:27: "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong."

The Lord has no problem choosing what is vile in the eyes of men to transform it into something precious because He disapproves less of the sinner who beats their chest, aware of their state, than the self-righteous who boasts of their merits before Him.

Luke 18:9-14: "Now He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: '
Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and began praying this in regard to himself: "God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, crooked, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get."
But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, "God, be merciful to me, the sinner!"
 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

Psalms 30:6-8: "Now as for me, I said in my prosperity, 'I will never be moved.' Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, I was dismayed. To You, Lord, I called, and to the Lord I pleaded for compassion"

He may allow, by temporarily hiding His face, that we falter if it can remind us that if we stand, we stand only by His grace which alone can keep us on the right path.

Matthew 12:20: "A bent reed He will not break off, and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish, until He leads justice to victory.."

There are times when our life is nothing but a flickering spark, which the slightest little gust of wind could extinguish forever. Jesus will not blow out this dying candle, He will not extinguish it. He does not reject the dimly burning wick, the bruised reed. On the contrary, He lifts it up, rehabilitates it and, incredibly, unthinkably for human logic, to make it sit with the great, in Him, at the right hand of the Father.

Psalms 103:3-4: "Who pardons all your guilt, Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with favour and compassion.."

Do you think the use of the word ALL in this verse is a coincidence?

This is how God is. God brings us out of all pits, ALL! Even and especially those we have put ourselves in. He does it without reproach, because He knows us. He forgives ALL iniquities. He does it because of His goodness and mercy with which He wants to crown the one who calls on Him (mercy = etymologically 'to take to heart the misery').

Psalms 103:14: "For He Himself knows our form; He is mindful that we are nothing but dust."

He knows how we are formed, with our bad choices, bad company or habits, a spirit weakly fortified by the Spirit of God, a powerful and omnipresent seduction, bad thoughts, folly in the heart and here we are in the pit, alone, unhappy, abandoned, desperate.

Psalms 103:10: "He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our guilty deeds."

Fortunately! If we were to be punished according to our sins, proportionally, who would still be alive on earth?! King David understood this and prayed very intelligently:

Psalms 143:2-7: "And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, For no person living is righteous in Your sight. For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead. Therefore my spirit feels weak within me; My heart is appalled within me. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your accomplishments; I reflect on the work of Your hands. I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You, like a weary land. Answer me quickly, Lord, my spirit fails; Do not hide Your face from me, Or I will be the same as those who go down to the pit."

King David even pleaded his case by seeking (and finding) really convincing arguments in his prayers:

Psalms 30:9-10: " What gain is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness? Hear, Lord, and be gracious to me; Lord, be my helper"

David was right. What would the Lord gain by making us go down into a pit? God is much more interested in bringing us out of the pit than in plunging us into it. He delivers from the pit anyone who cries out to Him. King David experienced it so many times and always in hopeless situations!

Psalms 40:2-3: " He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud; And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the Lord."

And Jonah:

Jonah 2:7: " While I was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple."

Abram one day received from God the promise that he would have offspring. Many years later, still nothing had happened, and when he was nearly a hundred years old, and Sarah, his wife, about the same age, was no longer able to have children, it is said that Abraham hoped against all hope. Hoping against all hope! Are you, too, at this point?

Common sense shouted it and Abram was neither blind nor stupid. He was perfectly aware that it was no longer humanly possible for him to have children. Only, an extraordinary miracle was going to happen because this time, common sense and the natural order of things would not weigh in the balance, as often if not always with God's blessing. Even natural principles could not prevent God from granting him what He had promised. And Abram, against all logic, hoped against all hope (humanly reasonable).

It is in such situations that God manifests His powerful presence in our lives. When there is no longer any human chance, no possibility and:

Romans 4:18-19: " n hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, 'So shall your descendants be.' Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb."

Abraham was in a situation perhaps similar to yours. Considering it rationally, reasonably, your situation is hopelessly desperate. And so? Do as Abram did. Do not consider it! Do not draw any pessimistic conclusions based on natural logic, do not take the natural into account.

The Lord opens exit doors that no one can see, that we would never have imagined, that spring from nowhere and bring improbable deliverance.

By hoping in God against all human hope, like Abraham, we trigger His hand. Abraham had a son who came out of a total impossibility!

This principle also applies to everyone, in ALL situations. In Jesus Christ, Grace abounds inexhaustibly. It abounds for you.

Romans 5:20: " The Law came in so that the offense would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."

There is only one sin that is unforgivable. It is the sin against the Holy Spirit. And you have not committed it because you would not be reading these lines.

The sin against the Holy Spirit is committed by the one who, having known Christ, then deliberately and fully consciously engages in the opposite way by opposing and insulting the person of the Holy Spirit. Can one do this after knowing Christ? Yes, and it is a mystery, the mystery of iniquity. Wasn't Lucifer the highest angel in heaven?

The sin against the Holy Spirit is a wicked, conscious, deliberately hostile and hateful act towards the person of the Holy Spirit and those who are in Christ. This is what the Pharisees did who, although recognizing in Jesus the Son of God, and recognizing the true nature of the Spirit that animated Him and by which He performed miracles, dared to say that He cast out demons by the impure spirit, by Beelzebub (John 12:22-32 / John 15:22-25). Jesus told them that their sin would not be forgiven. It sends shivers down the spine!

Apart from this sin, all recognized and confessed sins are forgiven. All. No child of God will ever go too far that they cannot be brought back to the fold.

Take courage! Is all hope lost? Well, hope against all hope like Abraham and call on the Lord Jesus Christ. He does not extinguish the wick that has only a spark left and that smokes. No cold and implacable reality will prevent the Lord from bringing you out of a deep and locked pit.

And I join with you now to ask God for His deliverance because if two agree to ask for the same thing, it will be granted to them.

And that I did it even before you read these lines is not a problem because the Lord in His omniscience is not, like us, subject to the implacable laws of time.

Matthew 18:19: " Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven."

And I encourage the one who doubts God's goodness to read: Does sin separate us from God? (Audio)