Check out Under the Radar's Easter episode. Click the link for some great indie music.
Hope everyone had a great Easter holiday, and I hope today you don't go back to normal and loving complacency. How's that for putting it bluntly!? Because He's risen, we have this hope so that we shouldn't to live like He's still dead. We don't have to live like we're dead! I really believe, based on all that's happening today in the world, that He's coming back soon. If you have chosen, at any point in your life, to become a Christ follower and accept His forgiveness of your sins, He took care of that for all time. There's so much freedom in that, knowing He came just for you, and you alone were worth it. He knew every wrong thing you'd ever do and thought you worth saving anyways, so why do we hang on to our past like we are still in bondage to it?
He freed us 2000+ years ago. His redeeming work was finished back then! But when we as Christians, either let our past hinder us from living in His freedom today, or we let our own selfishness (if we're being really honest, isn't that it?) stop us from being obedient today, then we are the ones who miss out the most. Of course it hurts Him when we find ourselves out of fellowship, but God is not the one who pulls away from us. We get busy. We let a futile life get in the way of a free and fulfilling one. There is NO fulfillment in anything other than Christ. Bottom line.
The world says that's not a popular message, but I know otherwise. The world says there is fulfillment in (empty) sex out of the context of a Godly marriage, drugs, alcohol(ism), careers, raising a family, finding that person to spend your life with, chasing money, chasing things, following your dream, fame...I could go on and on. This is why you see so many celebrities overdose on drugs, trophy marriages end in affairs, etc. You can have every thing the world says is satisfying, but in the end it's all an illusion. The truth is that satan is able to, depending on what you've been through in your own life, convince you to buy the lie that these will work. So we try-most of us before we come to accept Christ-to find fulfillment in anything that will fill whatever empty hole in our lives. But the Bible, and experience tells us that you can only seek empty things for so long if you really want that hole filled, before you realize that only God can fill it.
If you are open to Him shaking up your life, then I encourage you to try it. Some of us, came to realize a need for Christ only to experience turmoil that tempted us to walk away for a while, or at best become complacent-this was me. I knew there was a better way, but I think I just got so weary of life, and instead of doing what in the back of my mind I knew would help, I kept trying to figure it out on my own. It's like drowning. When you give up trying to fight the water, you find the stillness and peace and then you can float. There is no way to a fulfilling life, without Christ. People will eventually fail or disappoint you. Only God never will. So what do you say, what about trying it His way? Start by reading his word and praying more than just meal times. Talk to someone you know who is a real follower-not just someone who puts on a show- and asking them why it's worth it to them. Shoot me a message if you want, and I'd be happy to pray with you or just answer some questions as best I can about what Jesus has done in my life.
Peace.
No comments:
Post a Comment