I want you to maybe start every meditation where we’re gonna start this prayer.
Before you start every day, I want you to just take a deep breath and just think of God as your loving Father, who found you worth dying for, sending his only Son for you, and just rest in that gaze.
“But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8
So, let’s just do that right now before we say anything else to God for just ten seconds. Just think of him looking at you with great love.
I want you to just take a deep breath and for a few seconds, maybe just ten seconds, think about God, your loving Father, looking at you, his Son, who loved you so much he found you worth dying for, and just rest in that gaze of love.
So let’s do that for ten seconds right now.
When we didn’t deserve it, when we didn’t earn it, God sent his only Son and laid down his life for us.
A beautiful story that drives this home.In 1988 in Armenia, there was a 6.8 earthquake that left thirty thousand people dead in just four minutes. Amidst the rubble, there was one school building that had collapsed, and parents ran there.And when they saw it, they despaired. Except for one dad; he jumped into action. He ran straight into the mess, into the rubble, and started to pull one brick off, one piece of cement off at a time, looking for his son.
Initially, a handful of parents jumped in to help, but over time they started to drop out because they despaired.
Twelve hours later, he was the only one there. As time went by, people started to scoff at him and say, “Look, you’re being a fool. No one could have survived that. Give up!” !
But this dad never gave up.
He kept at it.
Twenty-four hours later, he was the only one there digging through the rubble.
Thirty-eight hours passed by, and then he removed one last piece of cement, and there was a son in a pocket of air with his friends.
And he said, ‘See, guys?I told you my dad would get us out.’
That’s the kind of father that God is. The one who, when we’re covered in the rubble of sin and we couldn’t possibly save ourselves, never gave up on us.
And with his bloody hands, saved us from our mess.
And the son in that story, that’s the kind of son that you and me should be. A son who knows and trusts in his father’s absolute love for him.