A New Life
In the world we live in today, everyone is born into sin. Our own nature is sinful. It doesn't matter how good and how bad we do.
Worse than that, our life may seem flourishing or disastrous, its result, without God, is that we are doomed to live eternity away from God, in eternal damnation.
Our life of sin, of denial of the will and law of God, leads us to live in a state that will reject Him forever. We were all condemned to no longer be able to face God.
A hard way to come back to reality! I accept it, and I approve. After some time, God chose a people with whom He chose to be in fellowship. Lots of ups and downs with the people of Israel, to put it mildly. God had chosen a people who could show the way for the rest of the nations to follow. But these people doubted, sinned, and gradually moved away from God as well.
Far from a fun part! Some have continued to believe in Him, and the prophets are some of them. They announced what we might call a literal "backup plan." He has a name: Jesus. Jesus came to reconcile God's people with the Father. He came so that all nations might discover the plan of salvation. He came to carry sin on His shoulders, dying a criminal death when He knew no evil deeds. Hello, justice!
The problem with looking at it on a larger whole is that apart from God, we are nothing. We are empty.
I don't know if you've been through this before ... It's like feeling empty despite everything you have. Despite your friends, evenings of so-called fun and fun, nothing is pleasant to you. For others, it will be like being born and living a "good" or "beautiful" life doing all the good in the world and overnight, losing everything. Or watch your world crumble and lose all hope. Some will even tell you that they feel broken. Does that sound familiar to you? Do you find yourself in one of these situations?
You are not the only one. The problem is probably the lack of hope.
A friend told me about smelling like a broken vase. So I told him about the kintsugi. Do you know what it is? You may have an idea without knowing the name (it was my case). So I had to do some research before answering him. And this is what I found:
Kintsugi is a Japanese art
When a porcelain dish, vase, or vessel breaks, people who can afford it employ someone to fix it using lacquer and gold.
The parts which "disappeared" during the deterioration of the object now turn into threads of gold.
After this repair process, the room can no longer be used for eating, as it becomes poisonous. Before reaching terrible conclusions, I will invite you to let me explain myself.
The broken vessel is our life without God. Useless, worthless, neither for us nor for the world around us. What led us to this situation were the injuries and disappointments. This is how we broke.
If we choose to put ourselves in God's hands, when we allow Him to fix us, He takes what was worth nothing and turns it into a work of art.
This work will have no place in its former location, will no longer have any function under the previous conditions. It would be toxic to the old environment, and it could possibly damage the new creation.
So, a new function is assigned to it: to highlight the work of the artist.
This is the option you have if you choose to give your life to God. You can allow Him to transform you and make you more useful than you were before. I can assure you, choose to accept the work of Christ in your heart and in your life, to refuse to live as you lived before, to separate yourself from sin, nothing more beautiful.
He is offering it to you today. Here are two verses that show you what God offers you for your life:
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. Isaiah 61:1 : This is a prophecy about Jesus Himself!
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18: this is a promise if you choose to submit yourself to His word.
So, what now? The choice is yours. But I really invite you to consider your options and to choose life with Christ.
I pray that you would have a good week,
May God bless you,
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