By Gina Caswell Kelly
My grandson had a wreck last week. It was not his fault. He was not hurt. Someone ran a stop sign and hit him. But, his pickup was deemed a total loss by the insurance company. So, we are working through all that. But I was thinking about what made the pickup a total loss. From the outside, it did not look that bad. But it was mostly the things you could not see that made it a total loss.
I am so grateful that in our lives, God never looks us over and writes “totaled out” on a form. God never looks at us as a lost cause. No matter how badly we have behaved, we always have a way back to Him. We have many assurances in His Word about how very much He loves us and how He will hold us to the end.
In Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah writes, “We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on Him.” He looks at us and sees a bright future. He sees in us the potential for good. Oh surely, He sees our sins, but He offers us grace and forgiveness to wipe them all away.
Once you have chosen to give your life over to Him, He promises He will keep you all the way through. He says, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” He says, “My Father is greater than I am and no one can ever snatch you out of My Father’s hand.” Oh the security of the believer is strong! I am so glad, as I have made many, many mistakes in my life, that I never had to doubt the strength of my Father and His ability to hold me. I will never be totaled out to Him.
As you go through your life, and mistakes are made, or life is just weighing heavy on you, rest in His promise of grace and forgiveness. His promise of mercy and goodness. His promise that He made you with a plan and a roadmap for your life. The more time you spend talking with Him and listening to Him, and the more time you spend reading His Word, the more obvious His path will become for you.
I am a child of God! I am His eternally. Of this, I have no worry. Have you put your trust in this Savior who loved you so much, that He gave His very own life for you? Read that correctly. His life was not taken. He gave His life so that you and I would have the gift of eternal life in Him. That we would have the gift of knowing that, in His eyes, we will never be totaled out!
Oh put your trust in this Savior! It will make a difference!
