A frequently searched question on Google is: Is God reaching out to me? Few people understand just how much God wants to rescue and save them from perishing. Not many appreciate His overtures of love towards them and the lengths to which He goes to bring them to safety. Yes, God is reaching out to you. Christianity is unique in that it presents God as One who is patiently and constantly reaching toward us to draw us to Himself. The God of Christianity does not need to be placated or appeased by our efforts or performance. Regardless of our past or our present, God is reaching out in grace toward us.

If you are already a Christian, this story will give you a fresh appreciation of God’s gracious interventions in your life. But maybe you are not. Of the thousands of people who will read this post, you may be the only one who is aware that God is reaching into your life by way of this message. God is leaning into you just now. Perhaps you have been thinking more about God recently, and you sense He is trying to get your attention. Has it occurred to you that He is bending down with open arms with a desire to lift you up?

The critical question is: how are you responding?

When I watched this video, I thought of some I know who are living in grave spiritual danger. God, in His kindness, employs multiple means to bring them to safety.

Can you think of any God moments you’ve had – when a voice whispered into the chambers of your soul saying it was time for you to be saved? Or, an occasion when God used His megaphone trying to sound the alarm – trying to get your attention?

Few of us are as cute as a koala bear, but all of us have an intelligence and understanding that these little animals do not have. You have no good reason to resist God’s rescue or to growl and squirm and fight with God.

The Apostle Peter wrote that God is long-suffering and patient, “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9 The Apostle Paul wrote that “God our Saviour desires all people to be saved…” 1Timothy 2:4

You understand that your sins are an offence to God and that you will perish eternally if you are not saved from your sins. You can read what God has said about your sin in the Bible, and you have been warned about the danger of Hell if die with your sins unforgiven. (Romans Chapter 3, Romans 6:23) You have heard the story of God’s love for you and that Christ died for your sins. (1 Corinthians 15:3) You know that one of the beautiful titles of the Lord Jesus Christ is Saviour or Rescuer. But every time God bends down to pick you up and save you – you resist and run from Him.

How many times have you heard of the tree upon which Jesus hung? Yes, it was a cross, but the Apostle Peter also called it a tree when he wrote:

“He [Jesus] Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree…” 1Peter 2:24

How many times has God kindly and graciously worked in your life to bring you to the tree, but you refused the One who hung upon it?

Perhaps God used a Christian to reach out to you. Maybe it was something you read. It could have been a vivid memory from your past that shook you. Perhaps it was a song or something you listened to. God even speaks in our anxieties and fears. For some, it is in the emptiness and hollowness of their lives that they hear the echo of God calling them.

The illustration of the koala bear breaks down when it comes to the final intervention. God will not save you against your will. Ultimately, He will respect your ability to exercise your own intelligent will. God will not force His great salvation on you. He will not drag you to safety despite your kicking and growling.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8

Other belief systems require followers to be diligent in their religious practices, or they will jeopardize their chances of being accepted by God. All teach that you can not be sure until some future judgment day when God will make up His mind about what He should do with you.

The Bible teaches that “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” A wretched drug dealer is accepted fully by God the very moment he places his trust in Christ. “Therefore being justified (declared righteous) by faith (simple trust in Christ as our personal Saviour) we have (that very moment) peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1)

While others wonder if they will be granted eternal life, the Bible teaches that believers can be absolutely sure they have eternal life. “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.” (1John 5:13)

When God saves you, every sin (past, present and future) is forgiven, and simultaneously you are brought into the family of God and you become a possessor of eternal life, and He guarantees that you will never ever perish. An absolute impossibility.

Jesus said: “I give them eternal life and they shall never perish.” John 10:28,29

He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” John 3:36

Do you have a moment when you stopped resisting and allowed God to save you? Why not, right now, bring your struggles to an end and as a helpless sinner, rest on Christ – the Saviour of Sinners and be saved?

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Video Credit: ABC News