Things get better when we receive Christ, but not in any sense that we can see.
We are often blind-sided looking for something that's not going to come. The
peace that passes all understanding came by a great tragedy and the tragedy
affected all who had their hope in God. God had finally come to redeem Israel
and then, He died. Knowing what the scriptures said, they were still shocked and
heartbroken. They were still in hope of triumphing without the tragedy. They
wanted the life without the death. It is impossible.
To expect some great life to come to us without some great death is a distortion
of the truth. "Sin revived and I died." (Rom. 7:9) This death must take place in
me before I live. "Ye must be born again." This life comes when the former life
comes to a tragic end. The tragedy is that all I thought to be true outside of
Christ Jesus is rubbish. My personality, my desires, my standards, the stances I
took; they're all rubbish. The whole life has to be trashed - suddenly and
tragically. You will not taste the slightest remnant of the new until you spit the old
out.
This is where you can find many of us; wading in the shallow end of a lifeless
pool of false hope, believing one day we will just end up in a sea of life. We avoid
the tragedy of the old life; afraid that it's gonna hurt; and it will. But there is no
triumph before that tragedy.
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We are often blind-sided looking for something that's not going to come. The
peace that passes all understanding came by a great tragedy and the tragedy
affected all who had their hope in God. God had finally come to redeem Israel
and then, He died. Knowing what the scriptures said, they were still shocked and
heartbroken. They were still in hope of triumphing without the tragedy. They
wanted the life without the death. It is impossible.
To expect some great life to come to us without some great death is a distortion
of the truth. "Sin revived and I died." (Rom. 7:9) This death must take place in
me before I live. "Ye must be born again." This life comes when the former life
comes to a tragic end. The tragedy is that all I thought to be true outside of
Christ Jesus is rubbish. My personality, my desires, my standards, the stances I
took; they're all rubbish. The whole life has to be trashed - suddenly and
tragically. You will not taste the slightest remnant of the new until you spit the old
out.
This is where you can find many of us; wading in the shallow end of a lifeless
pool of false hope, believing one day we will just end up in a sea of life. We avoid
the tragedy of the old life; afraid that it's gonna hurt; and it will. But there is no
triumph before that tragedy.
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December 08
DEVOTION TODAY Have you had yours?
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By: Pastor Aaron Clark
Tragedy Before Triumph