This morning was a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning came after a rainy last couple of days and I've been enjoying the afternoon and reflecting on how cool Jesus is. The service this morning was lovely and it got me to thinking about the holiday and the joy we have in it.
It's almost scary how easy it is for me to forget my own story! I don't know about you all, but I live in freedom thanks to Jesus and I know for sure the depths from which He has taken me. Yet when I look back at my life previous to His intervention, I feel like I have someone else's memories. I am such a different person now thanks to the work that He's done in my heart that I can almost forget how much I've changed... Thinking back to what my life was like when I was living apart from His active love, I find a very sad, lonely, hard-hearted girl who didn't have a bit of hope or joy. It's amazing to see what a complete transformation has been done in my life!!! How? I let the Jesus I had always known in my head touch my heart. I came to place of such desperation that I begged Him to save me from myself - and He did! I am astounded every time I stop and actually think about that. I had always known the story of Jesus. It was a name in stories I could retell in my sleep, but that name held no identity to me. I knew all the right answers, but I never realized what it was I was saying much less believed them. I believed that what I was parroting was truth because that was what I had been taught, but it was only head knowledge and a regurgitating of facts, not a true relationship or any personal revelation. The fact is, though, I was so wrong! Jesus was an actual person. Fully God and fully man. He walked and talked and ate and slept the same way you and I do today, but without any trace of sin. And He died. He was dead. And then He was alive again!!! The reality of that - if we truly believe it - should blow our minds no matter how many times we stop and actually think about it. Not only was He real and is now alive - actively, at this very moment, living - but then He looked down and reached into MY heart, which was twisted and broken, and fixed it! He actively changed the state of my existence and continues to do so every single day. He actually speaks, actually acts, and actually loves us more than we could ever image!! He's no myth, not just a story. It's not just something we say out of tradition on Easter Sunday, He REALLY IS RISEN!!!! He really does love so passionately and selflessly, more than we could ever fathom. And no matter what we do, that will never change for all of eternity. Every moment with Him is new and every day with Him another opportunity to see His love in action. It's so easy to just say these things or to think "Oh yeah, I know that. I've heard this one before." But if the reality of what we were saying truly hit us, we would be so flabbergasted that we would be unable to do anything but worship Him. Even now, I only have a fragment of the revelation of how real He is and one of my greatest joys is receiving even more of that revelation from Him. I can never know enough about Him. I can never love Him enough. I never get tired of talking with Him and falling more in love with Him. That is the eternal reality of relationship with Christ and it doesn't matter what happens to or around me - as long as I have Him, I have confidence and joy beyond measure!
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