Where Are You?

by Jessica Wright


God doesn't ask any question because He doesn't know, He asks so that you might recognize the answer and benefit.

Where are you?

He asks this question to every heart because the answer is the most important one to every life.

To recognize your standing before God is to your benefit.

People may have hurt you or confused you, because they are people.

Churches may have hurt you or confused you, because they are made up of people.

But it is God, not people, who is asking you where you are. He created you and He created you to be connected to him. But your sin, whatever excuse you have ready for it, stains your soul and has you completely separated from God.

God is a Perfect and Holy God like none other and sin and those who carry it cannot enter into his presence, his heaven. But he wants you there -in love, in perfection; sinless - the way you were originally created to be.

There is not one man-made thought, idea, practice or discipline or any amount of good deeds that could possibly earn a way into God's presence. There is not one way that you, yourself, could wipe away your own sin and connect yourself to God. God is aware of that. He knows where you are, what condition you are in. And He is calling you to himself anyway. He has provided his own way to wipe away and forgive your sin.

A perfect way.

The only way.

Jesus Christ.

A perfect God gave of himself to become a man. He walked the earth as a sinless man, taking the title of Son of God, and died in the place of your sin and mine. What is the most precious, important thing you could give? Your blood. Why? Because your life is in the blood. If you give all of your blood, you will not have life. Jesus Christ willingly gave up his perfect, sinless blood to cover over our sinful blood and forgive our sinful life. And it is enough. God's blood and sacrifice in place of our own is enough. How do we know it was enough? How do we know it was God? How do we know we are forgiven by this blood, this death, this sacrifice? Because by the same power that God used to create us, he used to raise himself from the dead. Not a ghost. Not an angel. But raised in the flesh. What is the one thing that no man can escape? Death. No matter what we do, accomplish, or fail in life, we all go to the grave. But Jesus has shown that he is God and He is more powerful than the grave. What does this mean to you? This means that when Jesus says to the weary and hopeless, "Come to me and I will give you rest," you can find it. When He says, "Anyone who believes on my name will be saved," you can believe it. When you hear that He says, "Whoever believes in the Son will have eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him," you can trust this is true.

Examine yourself to see where you are. God has given you the choice to see yourself as you really are, not compared to other people, but compared to Him. And what to do when you recognize the gap between you and God? Trust Jesus for his perfect blood to cover your blood, for his perfect life to cover your life, for his perfect ways to cover your ways. And be saved.