You know me?
… he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!" Luke5:8 NIV
Only God knows the wretch that I really am. Who will save a wretch like me?
God forgives sins yet men do not. We judge others, and compare ourselves to other people, and comfort ourselves by that fact that we can always find someone worse than us.
If I summed up all the bad and evil things I have done in my life, it would be an ugly picture indeed. I think it would be very ugly. There will be people who will sum up the sins of their life and compare it against mine and say, "Hey Jot, that's nothing, look at mine".
Then there are still others who will say, "Jot, you have lived a terrible life. I am a saint compared to you!"
Yet if we were all to be sentenced, we'd all receive a just penalty of death. The best that man can do is still far short of the perfection that God is.
My friend thought that I was a good and faithful Christian. I was some sort of a saint or angel from heaven. That is the image that some people have of me. But how much do you know about the things that live in my mind or the record of my sins? I told my friend about one of these things. Instantly she recognised that I was just another Sinner. The saintly glow that shone from me suddenly switched off. Disappointment drenched her thoughts.
I am no saint and I want the world to know. I am a sinner and that's the truth.
I am learning to live by the Grace of God that gives me hope. A promise of salvation and new life that is offered out of Love.
Lord, thank you for dying for a wretch like me. Teach me to live by your Amazing Grace.
