Psalms 51:17 - "My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God; you will not reject a humble and repentant heart."
Luke 18:14 - "For everyone who makes himself great will be humbled and everyone who humbles himself will be made great."
I think these three phrases can sum up the whole meaning of the bible. God is waiting to love you !!!
He is not expecting anything big from you, he just expects you to repent at your sins. In the Gospel of Luke it is mentioned about the 2 people who went to pray. One was praising god for making him a good man unlike others, and the other was down on his knees, repenting for his sins, crying out to god to forgive him.
God does not want boastful sacrifices and untimely praises. He really values your humbled heart which repents before god.
I remember when I was in school, we were small kids and were asked to go for a confession at least once a year. We were sitting in line inside church and an student from a much bigger class walked in. He was in tears. He knelt down in church and cried before he went into confession. I remember thinking ... He must have sinned a lot ... im happy that im not that much of a sinner ... but I realize now, god's love reached him much faster than it did for me on that day ....
My life is full of experiences ... this next one is the most important one of all ...
I had it so wrong for such a long time in my life. I was into charities, contributing money ... lots of money to orphanages ... Singing songs for god, praising his name in my song ... I was really happy and proud of myself. I got so many words of praise from all those around me. I knew I was on the right track, i knew god was happy with me and it made me really happy to hear what people had to say about my work. Every time someone approached me and told me that they really liked one of my songs or that they really appreciated what I did, it just made me happier and happier ... and the work that sums it all up would be, I was proud to be in the good books of god.
Or so I thought ....
An event happened which shook my life. It tore apart everything that I held close. I lost my job, position, money and i became a looser in front of everyone. But I clung onto god ... Deep down, i knew, that whatever happened, had its reason and that the solution would only be found in god. In my journey in seek of this answer, I got closer and closer to god. As I grew closer, I realized the error of my ways ... He started showing me my sin, one step at a time ... each time I repented, he showed me some more sin which I had not even realized. I had nothing else to do but to offer him my humble heart and my broken spirit ... and just then, the healing began.
God showed me that all that happened in my life was to bring me closer to him. The path that I was on, was taking me away from him and he could not stand to be away from me. He called me from a distance, but I did not look back. So he shook up my world so that I would realize what was wrong in my world and turn back.
All that it took for me to receive his love was my broken heart ... all that it took for his love to heal me was surrendering my whole life to his hands ... And the love that he gave me, and the path that he set me on, is far greater than what I though was great in life.
Slow down for a bit my brothers and sisters ... do you actually have god in your hearts ? or is it a show that you are putting on to show others that god is with you ? ... Do you repent ? ( We are sinners and forever will be ... we sin every day ... so why then do we not repent every day ? ) ... Do you feel your heart breaking when you have realized that you have sinned ? .... This is what its all about. Are you ready ? Because God is Waiting !!!
God Bless You All !!!!
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