Are we redeemable, are we really?


There is a reason God calls us sheep in the bible because sheep are dumb.
We are just tiny specs on a tiny rock hurtling around in space, and we think we are all so super important and that every thought that crosses our minds is made of pure gold. When the truth is this planet existed for thousands or maybe even millions of years before our brief appearance and hundreds of years from now no one will even remember 99.9% of us.
If our time here was measured in a pie chart as compared to the time this planet has existed, it wouldn't be visible even by the most powerful microscopes. If one day is a grain of sand, the days of our lives wouldn't even fill up a tablespoon. We are so insignificant and that point cannot be made clear enough.
But as much as I scoff and the ridiculousness of our lives and the joke we have made of human relations, I have to say that I believe God still finds something redeemable in us. Why else would He have sent his only son to die for a bunch of ungrateful booger eaters like me and you?
Can you step back from your self-important, self-proclaimed expert on everything mindset for just a moment and look at us through the eyes of our creator. Knowing what you know about how hateful we are, how we murder our own flesh and blood, how more than half of us cannot keep a marriage intact, how our porn-addicted, drug-addicted perverse culture feeds off of judging others when most of us are guilty of far worse than our worst neighbor. Never mind the other countries, you don't have to look back that far to see how this country stole our land from the Indians, built a huge business on slave labor, and still, today take advantage of undocumented workers to grow our crops, build our houses, and raise our children.
We kill the unborn and celebrate the right to do so. We peddle flesh in human markets. We hoard our riches while some of our own people starve. We don't live within our means and when we get in financial trouble we ask for a government handout. This is who we are. Now ask yourself. If you were a supreme being, would you die for someone like you?

Not only would He clean you up, but He will also completely transform you into a new creation. Sure, you will still have struggles. But from that point forward you will want to stay as clean as humanly possible. You will no longer live for your earthly rewards. You will understand that all of this, everything under Heaven is just rubbish. No matter how high you climb in this life you will still be woefully short of God's glory.
Once you have a taste of what God can do in your life you will not want anything less.
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