Hopeless and Helpless...But God.

For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.--Romans 5:6


To My Sweet Daughters,

I have been meditating on this verse for several days and have been applying it to many situations.  Truly for both the unbeliever grappling with belief and the believer grappling with weakness and sin it is powerful!  Girls, read these words again:

"For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."

These are words that can reach the depths of our being and fill us with joy unspeakable. These are wonderful words that should bring us to our knees in gratitude.

For the unbeliever who opposes Christ,  Spurgeon asks,  "How can you oppose One who embodies unmerited, unexpected, and unexampled love!"  "Christ died for the ungodly."  He justifies the ungodly at the time of their salvation.  "If you are sensible, you will see the remarkable grace in those words and will say to yourself, "Why, then, should I not be justified, and be justified at once?" If you are unconverted, my friend this is you...you are who Christ came to save."

Romans 3:10 There is none righteous, no, not one.

Christ meets us at our point of need.  When I was without strength, Christ pulled me up out of the miry clay and set my feet on the Rock.  I barely had the energy to cry out, but He heard me and brought me up...saved me....adopted me as His daughter and blessed me with riches incomparable in the Heavenly places.  I was in a helpless and seemingly hopeless situation and He took my mustard seed of faith (which He gave me) and turned my misery and weakness into blessings... my mourning into dancing.  When I look back, the darkest moment of my life became the greatest blessing I will ever know this side of heaven.  Our God is like that!!! He uses all the trials we face for our good and His glory.  


There are times when I am weak from grief and sorrow and seemingly without strength.  During these times I remember that when I was without strength..helpless and hopeless...He died for me.  How much more will He care for me now that I am His beloved daughter.  I fix my mind there.  I rest there. I cast myself at His feet and upon His mercy and allow Him to be my strength.  Girls, let this one glorious verse sink into your heart and permeate all of your mind and soul.    Sometimes in trials we feel  backed up into a corner with no where to go... at times it is difficult to think straight.  This truth stands on its own.  No thinking required.  Hold on to this one fact.  The Lord Jesus is your strength.  He is your song and has become your salvation.  The Lord is our eternal refuge and underneath are His everlasting arms.

The applications for this verse are endless...meditate on it and allow the Spirit of God to inspire you and encourage you with it.  I pray that as you meditate on it you will see the Son of God's unmerited, unexpected and unexampled love and that as you do, fear will be cast out and you will desire (in an even greater way than you do now)  to live your life completely for Him.  There is such blessing in the meditation of Scripture.  The word is living and powerful..receive it and allow it to implant in your heart and grow. 


Love 
Mom

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,   among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,  not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. --Ephesians 2:1-10