GOD DOES NOT FLINCH

Don’t you hate rejection?

Rejection comes at us on many levels, and at odd moments in our day. 

And the worst kind of rejection is the flinch.  You know the flinch.

-People look at a nasty wound and flinch.

-People hear a nasty story about your relationship breakup and they flinch.

-People hear about your financial woes and they flinch.

I hate the flinch. 

Know what?  God doesn’t flinch.

He knows us, knows we are weak, and knows we sometimes make stupid choices, but he doesn’t flinch.  Never. 

Remember King David?  He was the apple of God’s eye, yet he had a man killed, committed adultery, and he committed a few other sins, yet God never flinched.

Remember the woman caught in adultery.  Christ simply said “Go and sin no more”.  But he didn’t flinch.

Remember Zacchaeus?  He was despised by his peers, an outcast in social gatherings, a thief, and he had a somewhat shady reputation, yet Christ didn’t flinch.  He walked right up to that tree where Zacchaeus was perched, looked him in the eye, and invited him to come down so they could have supper together. 

I don’t know what you’ve done, but regardless of what it may be, God will not flinch.

He looks on with kindness, love, compassion, forgiveness, and mercy.

He is grace. 

God never flinches.