“…Why Are You So Nice to Me?”
7/6/12 (6th day/3:00a.m.)—Awakened in the dark night, I turned on my flashlight to see the time. Seeing it was only 3a.m., I tried to continue sleeping. After about half an hour I find myself still very much awake and couldn’t sleep. This happens to me at times. And when it happens, i see it as GOD’s way of letting me know that He desires to spend time with me and i with Him by prayer and the reading of His Word.
So I rose up and spent the rest of the night in communion with our LORD. After reading a chapter from Psalms, I proceeded to read in one of the Books of the Gospel. At this time I was reading from Luke 12. Reaching and reading verses 32 and 37, my eyes suddenly well up and tears started flowing down my cheeks. Sobbing and in tears, I couldn’t help but utter these words, “My GOD, why are you so nice to me?”
All my life, I felt that GOD has lavished me with His love, despite my sinfulness, and many times falling and failing as I journeyed along life’s way… And like David, I see myself and say that my sins are ever before me…
This kind of love that I have received and continue to receive from our loving and gracious GOD, I feel I do not deserve… For what good have I done to deserve His love?! Nothing, really… For while I was yet a sinner, He already loved me… and even gave His life for me.
Continuing in life, I keep falling and failing, sometimes submerged and steeped in the mire of sin, and He sends His sweet Spirit to reach out to me, lift me up from my fallen state, and patiently work in my life and my heart that I may be cleansed of all my impurities and defects of mind and character.
Not only that, my LORD is even up there in heaven, interceding continually in my behalf and your behalf before the Father, that we may be reconciled and abide in a loving relationship with our gracious and merciful GOD…
Such love is too awesome, too high and lofty, I cannot comprehend it… And this kind of love breaks my heart of stone, changing it into a heart of flesh that desires to love Him back sincerely, purely and faithfully… and out of sheer gratitude, share His loving acceptance and unconditional love with others met along life’s way…
How much pleasure and joy it gives as hearts respond with the desire to love back, springing with loving gestures and expressions that make up and establish a friendship and loving relationship which I look forward to last till eternity…
Our loving GOD desires to have the same experience with each of us His children, I know. He lavishes us with His love, hoping that we may come to recognize Him and appreciate His love for us and trust Him and love Him back truly… He longs to have a loving, intimate relationship with each of us. And as we respond to His love with love, as well, I know that it gives Him joy, seeing that He is accepted and His love is appreciated… And He longs even more for this loving relationship to last till eternity!
GOD demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
It is written, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which GOD has prepared for them that love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9
