I am SO grateful that Jesus came into the world to minister to the broken, hurting people.
He didn't come to pat the religious on the back and applaud their self-righteous antics. He came to reach out to the "untouchables", to restore the outcasts, to forgive the "unforgivable", to heal the lame and the sick, to give sight to the blind, and to remove our shame so we can walk in freedom.
I'm so glad Jesus is this kind of Savior! His ministry was proof that people matter to God....and not just the neat, tidy, lovely people....but the broken, sinful, lost ones, like me. He longs to have EVERY sinle one of us restored to relationship with Him...what a Savior!
"[In love] He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will---to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us..." ~ Ephesians 1:5-8a
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