He Excludes No One

March 28

Every person on the planet is a candidate to be a recipient of the love and mercy of our great God and King. Everybody. Oh, you and I might be able to tick off a dozen likely exceptions without even spending much time thinking about it. But He would exclude none of them.

Wait a minute! What about someone like Adolph Hitler? There was no redeeming quality in the man. Surely, the Lord has no compunction about opening the trap door to hell and letting him slide on down! What about the child molester who robs a child of innocence? What about the terrorist who slaughters the innocent?

You and I may disdain the thought of rubbing shoulders with such a one, but the reality is that Jesus died for these heinous sins as well as for our own. We may assign a weight to each sin; in our estimation, some are heavier than others. But God has no curve on which He grades. All sin demands the penalty of death—all sin but that which is under the blood of our Savior Jesus Christ.

No matter how vile, how ruthless have been our acts, in spite of against whom they may have been perpetrated, if we come to the Throne of Mercy and Grace with sincere tears of repentance, we will be forgiven. As David said in Psalm 145:9, “The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made.” He excludes no one from the plan of salvation. The only one who can exempt a man from receiving God’s free gift is himself.