Loving the unforgivable

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence.4 He will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.(Psalm 91;3-7)
Have you ever made a terrible mistake?  The kind of mistake that haunts you.  The kind of mistake that you only escape in sleep (though sometimes you have nightmares about it) and then remember quickly upon waking.  The kind of mistake that you feel that you feel like you are paying for each and every day.  It carries a tremendous weight...it chokes life from you...it chokes hope...
This has been on my heart for several weeks now.  In the eyes of men there are things that are unforgivable, yet in the eyes of God, all sin is equal.  God is holy and perfect and any sin is too much at all.  While men judge other men for what they have done, God wants to draw us to himself and accept Jesus as our savior.  He wants us to know that He paid the ultimate price for us on the cross so that we may have life...WE ARE FORGIVEN.  This is such a hard concept for us to understand when we look at it through the view of someone else's life, yet it is what we cling to most when it involves ourselves.  There are people who have committed what are unspeakable crimes, and we as humans condemn the person for eternity, writing them off as "defective".  The thing that I have been literally feeling in my heart over the past few weeks is that the forgiveness of Christ and the restoration that takes place in salvation, the freedom of Christ is exactly what the people we have written off need the most.  They need to be set free from that moment in their life that haunts them..in many cases it was 1 momentary lapse in judgement that has lead to a lifetime of judgement upon themselves.  I realize that I'm not talking about popular things, in our society, we don't forgive or love murderers, drug dealers, etc.  I'm not saying that they should be pardoned for their crimes, yet I am saying that they are not exempt from the saving grace of Jesus.  I know this isn't popular, yet we must not neglect these people who are in desperate need of Christ...and we as the Church must share the love of Christ, pray for their salvation, and seek to minister to them as we minister to one another.  
Can you imagine being the person who made a bad decision,waking up every day to the consequences, with no love, nothing to look forward to, and ultimately zero hope...this happens every day for those who don't know Jesus...regardless of what their "bad decision" was?  We are all only 1 bad decision away from being there...let us be sure to share the FREEDOM that is Jesus!  Scripture says that "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us"...US...not some of us, US...
Tonight I'm praying that the heart of God's church would be stirred with a desire to spread the LOVE & PEACE of Christ to all whom they encounter...so that the FREEDOM, LOVE, & PEACE of Christ would reign supreme in the hearts of all.