"It's Me"

A few days ago I heard this Sara Groves song for the first time. I'm not even married, and yet before the song could finish I was sobbing so hard that I had to run in the bathroom and cry on the floor. I knelt there confessing to my precious Lord all the times I've been so hard and calloused, so cold to His touch. It's me that is so wrong. It's me who puts the distance between us. So often I've been like Israel in the book of Jeremiah, forgetting Him for days without number.(Jer. 2:32)
Throughout so many books of the Bible, the Lord speaks as a jilted, forgotten, heart-broken lover---yet ALWAYS A LOVER. This truth of His character has amazed and broken me time and time again. The fact that no matter how cold I become, He always welcomes me back with open arms and more tenderness that I could ever dream.

Have you ever grown cold or hard toward someone whom you have committed your life to and who loves you? Is there someone whom you need to be reconciled with today? Just those two words, "It's me".... could be the hardest and yet most precious words you could say to them.
May the Lord grant you grace this day to join with Him in one of the most beautiful aspects of His nature.... RECONCILIATION.


"It's me, oh baby it's me...how in the world could tenderness be gone?"