The last few days I’ve been reading a book called What's so Amazing About Grace? and I’ve found it to be very inspiring, especially talking about how much love God has and how He even loves the worst kinds of people. It reminded me of Timothy McVeigh.

Could God possibly love Timothy McVeigh?

Timothy McVeigh was an American soldier in the first gulf war who became disenfranchised with his own country and decided to blow up a federal building as some kind of revenge or justice. So he parked a truck full of explosives outside a government building in Oklahoma, USA. When the bomb went off, it killed 167 people including many children attending childcare on the ground floor. It’s hard to imagine that God could love someone who hated so much, and killed, but according to the Bible, God not only could love Timothy McVeigh, but the Bible tells us that He does.

Thinking through the Bible I remember that Kind David was a murderer and adulterer, but God still made a place for him. The Apostle Paul was also once a murderer and a violent man but became a man who knew God because God accepted him too. Rahab was a prostitute that God accepted and so was Mary Magdalene who in addition to being a prostitute, also had 7 demons in her.

I remember a year or so back that I got an email from someone telling me that they didn’t think God could ever forgive them for what they had done. In their opinion, the sins were so bad that they felt no one could love them, and as a result they wouldn’t tell me what their sins were. However, all the worst kinds of sins have already been committed by people who are now forgiven. His problem was not that God couldn’t forgive and accept him, but that he couldn’t’ forgive and accept himself. Its often this way…..people don’t receive God’s love because they feel they aren’t good enough…………..but God is just waiting for you to ask.

So even Timothy McVeigh, or Judas, or even Hitler……….if any of these people had asked God………….His love was there for them no matter what they had done.

One of my favourite parts of the Bible is the thief dying on the cross next to Jesus. This man had not done anything good in his whole entire life, but as he died, he looked over to Jesus and with the smallest amount of faith, He was saved. One day we who believe will meet this man in Heaven….won’t that be interesting! Thank God, that his forgiveness is eternal and his love never runs out. It’s no wonder I love God so much.

Don’t forget to ask, and you will receive it.
Bless you a million
David