God has been revealing to me, little bit by little bit, the depravity, hopelessness, and emptiness of mankind without God. Brothers and sisters, whether we accept this truth or not, life without God is just the fallenness of mankind and the fall was the beginning of all of these problems of depression, anxiety, emptiness, exhaustion, illnesses, etc. Our sins, our fallenness, our desire for something so VAPID and SENSELESS and MOMENTARY has caused us to forfeit the one true love that we have spent our whole lives savings on. All of these problems are so real. If you put ALL distractions down for a second and if you are not pursuing a relationship with Christ, youll come to realize it too (if your heart is not hardened) -- life without Christ is just so... tasteless. This is the hard truth: what the world has tastes like dirt and thats why we try to fill it up with Facebook, Tumblr, books, movies, studying excessively, eating excessively, sleeping excessively, popularity, and other things. But does it really make you full? Because of our sinfulness and depravity, our just punishment is a life in which God turns His face away, which just leaves us to our hopelessness and our gray, broken world. BUT, because He so richly loved and loves us, He sent His Son as the sacrificed Lamb to be labelled as all of our sins that we may be seen as righteous and clean. Because Christ Jesus lives, I can wake up in the morning and know that although I may fall so many times in this walk with Him, His grace and His love for me is sufficient to battle what comes on the path. I dont have to feel that my life is hopeless or pointless. Tribulation and troubles suddenly arent a rock on my shoulder, but are things that He places to make me stronger. Deserts suddenly arent frustrating seasons in my life, but rather times that teach me how to yearn for Gods voice more. It doesnt mean that all of my problems will be fixed or that suddenly all of the brokenness will disappear all at once, immediately. But the thing is, because He lives, I can carry my own cross of pride, depression, bitterness, confusion, and worldliness and die to myself, even if I need to carry it until the day that He comes to take me home where I may be renewed for eternity. Do not trivialize sin so that you could scrape by the days without actually living; understand the gravity and the reality of the falleness of man, that when you are humbled, He may lift your head and take your hand to walk new roads to places youve never been to before. It will not be an easy walk, but it will be good. Seek to know Jesus. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow! Because He lives, our fear is gone! Because I know He holds the future, life is worth the living, just because He lives.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 06:08:57 +0000
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