So God forsook them.
Oh. It literatly makes my stomach drop to think about what it would be like to be forsaken by God.
Then they humbled themselves and God had mercy on them. He is so unbelievably compassionate. The God of a thousand chances.
Then I turned over to read a little bit in Isaiah 53 and this jumped out at me:
"He was despised and forsaken of men."
Forsaken. Jesus was forsaken. By us.
And since Jesus is God, it was like I was basically reading the 2 Chronicles story all over again. There we go, turn our backs on God and rejecting the One who made us.
Man has been forsaking God since the beginning of time. It's so humbling to be reminded that we love only because He loved first. We have been going our own way, doing our own thing continuously and we are completely at His mercy to draw our hearts back.
We can't really appreciate the glory of the cross and the resurrection until we recognize how truly lost and depraved we are.
"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
even as the rest.
But God,
being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."
Ephesians 2:1-7
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