When God Stoops Down

“Lord, help me.” For two years, that was the only thing I knew to pray. And for awhile, I quit praying at all. Mostly it was because I was simply out of words.

It was two, hard, long years. Actually, it went back even further than that. Those were just the years I was in the pit and couldn’t survive any longer. Before that, I was simply surviving.

Until one day, I couldn’t do it anymore. Lord, help me. Lord, help me. But God was silent.

I was in the pit – the pit he promised to rescue and deliver me from. Where was He? Where was He?

“What God allows, God will redeem.” I heard those words on the radio late one night when I was driving home from job #2. I was working 70+ hours as we tried to make ends meet. I was crying, and not praying, and I heard those words.

At first, I fought them. After all, God had not redeemed my situation. My sister had still passed away. My bank account was still empty. My emotions were still depleted. My marriage was still struggling. My heart reminded me of truth – sometimes outcomes don’t always look as I might desire.

Eventually I just let these words settle on my heart. Yes, what God allows, God can (because only He is God) and will (because He has promised it) redeem it. I believed it before I saw it, and because I know that to be the very nature of who He is, I knew it would be true. And it did come true- eventually.

Eventually, I would see how God would put back together my broken pieces and my broken world. I would see how He, and really ONLY He, could take something that was worthless and make it worth every moment to know God the way I know Him now. Only He can take something ugly and messy and turn it into something valuable and beautiful.

When I surrendered to His truths and His plan, and when I began to focus on Him more and myself less, I found He had been with me all along. And I fell in love with Jesus all over again.

You may be perfect, or you may be in the pit, but I simply want YOU to fall in love with Jesus like you never have before.

I am *not* perfect. My fear in writing this is in my own knowing that I’m not worthy to bring you to Jesus. You would be correct if you find me flawed and incapable. I will be up front that I am both of those things. It is in my struggle that I have known and loved Jesus as never before. It is not in spite of being flawed, it is because of it. It is not in spite of being incapable, it is because of it. Because I am incapable, only then can He be more than capable.

I thought I knew Jesus, and in fact, I did. I have always known Him and loved Him. I just love Him differently now. I love Him deeper and truer and with greater awe and appreciation because of how He loved me and stayed with me even when I was angry at Him in the pit.

Once when I was a child, I heard someone, or read something, I can’t recall, that give me a visual of Jesus that has stayed with me ever since. It is based on a Psalm (Ps. 113:6) that speaks of God stooping down to look in on the heavens and the earth.

The picture painted was of the tallest man I know having to stoop down to fit into a doorway. Indeed, there was a very tall man at my church who had to duck through the door to enter into a room, so I could picture it well.

I must tell you that the great, big, giant God of the universe ducked into my tiny life to love me and to wrap His arms around me. He enters our world. It’s his very name – Immanuel – God with us. It may be one of His names that I love most. I will never get over the fact that God stays with us.

God entering our world is one of the most beautiful mysteries that I cannot fully grasp. He is not a potter that displays His creation on a shelf to be used at His leisure. He is a potter who pours Himself into the very vase He created.

It is my heart's desire to share this Jesus with you- the One who redeemed my story. This is what I will write about and, using God's own Words, this is where I will tell the story of a God who desires for you to know Him intimately and personally.

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