Rock Bottom.

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Hi, I’m Light! Welcome to—

“Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness and broke their bonds apart.”

— ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭107‬:‭13‬-‭14‬‬

God is love; kind and patient by nature, withholding love from none and thus kind to all— including the wicked and the unjust. (Luke 6:35) But some who are wicked, no matter the great levels of exposure they’ve had to God’s kindness and goodness and grace and the opportunities they have had to receive God’s salvation, refuse to repent.

God loves them anyway. Unconditionally. 

God does not delight in afflicting anyone. (Lamentations 3:33) Yet, He breaks the pride of the wicked through suffering (Psalm 107:10-15), so that we will cry out to Him and enter sweet dependency on Him in repentance. He loves us, and so He allows us to suffer so that we may eventually depend on Him and be saved. His allowing suffering, as are all of His actions, is motivated by love.

Like Peter whilst sinking, and the Israelites in bondage, we cry out to God in the midst of trouble and distress. Our circumstances graciously break our pride, i.e. our self-dependency, moving us to repentance on our knees before God. And then, in His goodness, God fills us, lifts us out of the pit, (Matthew 11:12) buries and covers our sins, and saves us. In salvation, in humility and dependency on Him, we rest.

Rock bottom is a place of humility and encounter with God. We are often saved at rock bottom; we more eagerly open ourselves to receive God when we are empty and full of nothingness. Rock Bottom is a point of salvation, humility, and encounter with God— the God Who Lifts and Saves.

It is a common starting point of a new life and new beginning.

God will wait until the last moment for each one to repent because that’s just how great his love is. He waits, withholding punishment mercifully, until the last second, for each to receive His forgiveness by faith.

“But He said to them, “What man is there among you who, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭12‬:‭11‬ ‭AMP‬‬

““Blessed and happy and favored are those whose lawless acts have been forgiven, And whose sins have been covered up and completely buried.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬ ‭AMP‬‬

Selah.




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