3/25/26

This Is Your Life.

Most younger people reading this will have no idea what that first sentence is. For you, I will explain. There was at one time a radio show turned into a TV show, where a guest would have their life story or stories of their life shared with the viewers. There would be pictures and letters written by the guest in earlier years of their life and then they would bring in people from their past who would share stories from earlier in their life. Some stories would be funny, others sad, some embarrassing, and some, just plain bad.

Would you be frightened or ashamed to be chosen for this show if everything you have done in the past, or present, would be revealed?

I wouldn't want to be on this show. We would all probably be ashamed.

Scripture tells us, 1 Timothy 5:24 NASB95 The sins of some men are quite evident, going before them to judgment; for others, their sins follow after.

We all have a multitude of sins in our past and even in our future. I get so disgusted with myself sometimes, that I just feel like God should give up on me. Maybe you are the same. I am so amazed at His forgiveness, His mercy, His grace, offered through the sacrifice of His Son, that I am ashamed to have the opportunity to be used by Him.

We often are so worried that someone else might figure out that we struggle with sin that we forget that the One who offers these blessings through His Son is all-knowing. It really doesn't matter if everyone else knows that we are a pitiful mess because the one who judges already knows.

Sunday, I stood before the church and asked, do we really think that other sinners are worse than us. Some might say, but what about the child abuser, molester, and murderer? These people are on a whole different level than the rest. Then I said, as the thought started to pierce my heart with shame, "I nailed my Savior to the cross. I took the whip with pieces of bone and stone and I sank it into my Savior's body. Then I ripped flesh and meat from His body as I yanked it back. I rammed thorns into His scalp causing blood to run down His face. I pierced His side. I MURDERED THE PERFECT ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD!"

I did it with lies, lust, pride, jealousy, idolatry, and every other LITTLE SIN that I have committed.

I am ashamed. I am not ashamed because you know it, that really isn't that important to me. I am ashamed because I have and I continue to add to the suffering of the Only One who helped the men up who fell backwards when He said, " I am He," in John 18:6. I am ashamed because I delivered Him over to be crucified and then He said, "he who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” John 19:11

Yes, of course I am ashamed and I wouldn't want to have my life told. However, it doesn't end there.

You see, I didn't take His life from Him. Although I MURDERED Him. He allowed me to. I couldn't have done it, if He didn't allow it. I do not have that power. No, He freely gave it. He allowed me to murder His body. Then He freely yielded His soul. He did this so that I can freely choose to place the measure of faith He has given to me back in Him, and have eternal life. This is ALL done in love!

So not only am I horribly ashamed, but I am beyond words thankful, and excited to tell others.

I don't do it well enough. I need to do better. But His forgiveness, mercy, and grace don't depend on how well I do it. Instead, it depends on how perfectly He took my pitiful and shameful place.

Scott, This Is Your Life. Horrible, pitiful, undeserving, filthy, ashamed, sinner.

---WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS---

Scott, This Is Your Life. Saved by His death and His life eternal!

Hey, you know what I would go on that show just so I could show the world, THIS IS JESUS AND HE IS OUR ONLY LIFE!!!!

Love Bro. Scott