https://odb.org/MY/2022/10/13/will-you-still-love-me
Romans 5:6-11 highlights the nature of God’s love that transcends our sinfulness and unrighteousness that while we were yet sinners and unrighteous, God sent His one and only son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins and reopened the way for humankind to be reconciled to God. That is why Jesus declared Himself as the way, the truth and the life. He is the only way to the Father. He is the truth in the sense that His words and deeds are true, that He was not only a teacher but God incarnate and personified. He is the life as through Him we will have eternal and everlasting life that though we may die, we live, a life that transcends death and time that will transport us into a new realm one day here on earth when heaven and earth will merge with God dwelling among His people as He originally intended back in the day before man met the serpent and sin.
The question today is whether after accepting Christ and becoming a believing child of God, will God still love us if we sinned? Can we still sin after we are in the light? Yes and surely so because we are still human. But will God still love us? Will He still accept us?
The fact that God made the first move to reconcile us to Him while we were yet sinners is proof that if we still sin after we have known Christ, God will forgive us and accept us. This is because His love is unconditional and He will accept us as we are, flesh and blood with our old self still intact despite us being born again with our new spiritual self. We will always be work in progress until the day of judgment. God accepted us when we first sought Him into our lives and He will still accept us today and in the days to come.
Does that mean our life is not transformed from knowing Christ? Are we still behaving like our old self, living a life of evil intentions, scheming the downfall of everyone else, only thinking of our own self interest? Are we living a life of sin? Are we living a life that is incompatible with our faith?
I think the message today is that as much as God still loves us even if we sin after knowing Him and as much as that He will forgive Him as we confess our sins and repent of them, we must progress daily from worse to bad, bad to good in more and more aspects and areas of our lives. It is a daily crucifixion of our old self to let our new self take control and be dominant. The light of Christ must shine forth within us to overpower all darkness and evil desires in us. We love others and put the interests of others first to the extent that we love our enemies. We may be a long way from perfection but we need to be in a journey heading towards that, on the path of righteousness towards heaven and not on the path that leads to destruction.
Never give up and never be afraid to turn back to God if we ever strayed because He loves us!
Ronnie's Thoughts 