GOD Never Writes You Off!

As I was growing up, I remember seeing a friend receive a very nice gift from his parents for his birthday. He was so excited. But, when he disobeyed them a short time later, they took it away from him and sold it. It kind of irked me that they did that because he was really hurt and I saw over the years that he never really forgave them; rather, he began to follow a path of drugs and alcohol and I finally lost contact with him as he drifted further away.

As a believer in Christ, you may have had a time in your life or, you might be living through a time right now where you feel disconnected from GOD due to sin or disobedience. You may feel GOD will never forgive you or lift you back up to the place you would like to be in Him. The feelings of disconnectedness seem to be driving you even further from GOD. You may have even gotten to that place where you feel you have lost everything you ever had in GOD. Consider what Paul wrote in Romans 11:29: “God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.” (HCSB). 

GOD doesn’t give up on you. He doesn’t write you off because of your sin; rather, He desires to bring you back to Himself where He can once again pour His gifts and calling into your life. GOD doesn’t retract His gift of salvation just because you stray. His gift is yours. As Paul writes in Ephesians 2:8-10: “For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift-not from works, so that no one can boast. For we are His creation-created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.” (HCSB).

I have gone through times where I felt very distanced from GOD because of sin. I have even allowed myself to begin to believe GOD could never use me again. Yet, that word in Romans came back to me and I recognized that the gifts and calling of GOD are irrevocable. He didn’t write me off but waited for me to return with open arms. Paul assures us of our position in GOD when He wrote: “we are God’s children, and if children, also heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ-seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him” (Romans 8:16-17 HCSB).

As a child of the King, He will never write you off! No matter how far you have drifted; no matter how “BIG” you think your sin is. It simply doesn’t matter. GOD loves you and stands waiting to draw you back to Himself. Perhaps, you have kids who have drifted away from GOD. GOD doesn’t give up on them and neither should you. If you have hurt them by your words or actions, do everything you can to rebuild that broken relationship in order that they may recognize true love and forgiveness and know that GOD’s love and forgiveness are even greater.