It’s amazing how the Cross really affects every part of our lives. Yesterday at our staff prayer meeting we were talking about how the Cross just takes over your life. It’s so true! But if you don’t have eyes of faith, it can seem like the Cross is ruining your life. This is because God has to lead us down paths of undoing old ideas and belief systems in order to reveal to us new truths based on His Kingdom and our New Creation selves. Unfortunately, this undoing can be painful and sometimes when the Cross is taking over your life, it feels like everything is getting ruined. But the truth is, that which we perceive God as ruining was already ruined. We were ruined because of the Fall and Jesus came to make it right. Through the Cross God is undoing our being ruined. God is ruining us being ruined! Ha! Two negatives make a positive right!?!
"by one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy" - Hebrews 10:14
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Oh so very very true! Even this morning Jesus was exhorting me "not to pull away" from the place of oneness because of the pain of redefinition. The pain of letting go of perspectives, of "my usual ways of dealing with things". To keep going, to keep embracing Him and His ways means my old ways continue to die. Life and death happening together at once. Sometimes we only feel one side at a time - bummer - but that's only a partial truth, because when we become comfortable with the New, I know from experience that its full of life and blessing. But right now, today, the old in me is dying!
Living with this eternal powerful act which is the life and death of this material realm in our finite bodies, in time, when we don't see everything yet brought under his feet - but we DO see Jesus, well - you gotta love it (smile). What a wonderful, challenging way to live! It reminds me of when Jesus told the crowds that they would have to eat His flesh and drink His blood if they were to have any life in them and they all left. As we continue to ingest his body & blood on a daily basis, letting it "ruin" the Old Man's ways and means (definitions, relational patterns, ways of handling things etc.) Jesus turns and says to us, "Will you also leave?" But I say, "Lord, to whom would I go? Only you have the words of eternal life."
Oh so true, Grande.
Ruin what's already ruined, Lord, so we may live in wholeness and life with you.
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