It's the classic story isn't it? We get this taste of Jesus and having experienced that, we try to do this life thing and there's so much to do and think about and try and it's shiny and distracting and then one day, in your desperation, you realize that there's a forgotten hunger and thirst.
It's like being in a house full of food and water, but not eating and drinking for a year and finally making something to eat for the first time...
Right at about 6:07 or so -- right then -- I had been watching this video and noting the story with understanding up until that point.
Then tears. One after another. I'm not going to say that I started weeping profusely or anything, but I did cry because I understood the story and moreso because I identified with how she felt after having all of those things happen to her. To be pressured and beat up and bullied by life, by evil influences, by thoughts of suicide, by the things she did just to belong and when it all started to crash down on her, for her to look up and find Jesus standing there loving her just as much as when she left Him.
It's not fair.
It's not fair that she can or you can or I can, but we can and He'll be there to love us. Is this license to act a fool and just expect no consequence: no. Don't be stupid.
However, it touches me -- as it should you -- that God is as amazingly gracious as He is.
It's definitely touching me right now.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.- 1 John 1:9
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