Too Late for Redemption?

Evolution of a Character

One of my most favorite movie series is Star Wars.  I admit, I find the character of Anakin Skywalker, AKA Darth Vader to be the most compelling.  He takes an interesting journey through life, first with adventure and delight, then with pain and resolution, moving into hate and revenge, and finally completely lost into darkness.  If the story had ended here, we would have seen a lost soul.  But, in the very end, Anakin felt love again, and committed one last act of redemption.  By this act, he saves his son, his soul, and brings balance to the force, as was predicted when he was just a young boy.

Have you ever believed your sins and darkness took you too far from God to be saved?  Don't believe it! God hates sin, but he loves you too much to let you die to your sin.  He wants to peel away the darkness that consumes you, and help you find the light of his love.  It's not too late.  It's never too late to find God's redemption.  

"Christ arrives right on time to make this happen.  He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready.  He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready.  And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway.  We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice.  But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him." ~Romans 5:6-8 MSG