The first time I met Glen Scrivener he encouraged me with the gospel. He still does it, though I haven’t seen him in person for a while…
I remember speaking with a Christian man about his extra-marital affair from years earlier. As he spoke about the pain of those memories I said to him You realise that in the midst of the very worst of that, Jesus was rejoicing over you as a Bridegroom rejoices over His bride. He paused for a long time and said “That makes it a hundred times worse!” I said Yes it does. A thousand times worse. We think that we manage to sin away in a corner somewhere. No, no, no. Just read 1 Corinthians 6:15-20 to see that we are very much united to Christ in our sin!
We stink of pig in the Father’s arms. That’s a thousand times worse than stinking in the sty. But it’s a milliontimes better too.
The above from a post on the Prodigal Son, and the follow up post – Sinning really isn’t the worst thing
If you’ve never read is blog, you should.
If you live near Eastbourne, go and meet the man.
Yeah come on down to sunny Eastbourne. That especially includes you Hugh!
ps thanks for the link