Until we see the
fullness of our depravity, taste the
sludge spewing out from the depths of our heart, we will not grasp the enormity
of risk Jesus took to save us. The
humiliation we feel at the sight of our temper spewing poisonous wrath upon
some stunned family member or careless co-worker is the edge at which we can
get at the real crisis we face. When a
well-shrouded lust takes control of our moral piety, we are at the precipice of
the most critical discovery. We are
filthy and corrupt at the core and it is needless trying to make something of
our selves. Our critical need is not
self-assessment and adjustment; it is the rush of life Jesus gives us at the
Cross. We are not fixable; but we are
destructible. The sooner we see our true
condition, the quicker we will be able to turn away from bandages when we need
resurrection. Jesus did not come to fix
us but rather to raise us from the dead.
We are irretrievably ruined by sin and that becomes obvious when we blow
up at our four year-old for smearing lipstick on her face just as we are about
to leave for the wedding. The entire
town of Sodom may have been self-righteously unaware of the filth it was
gathering but Lot knew what was there and although he tried his best to ignore
the elephant in the room, he at the point of destruction had to face it
squarely. You are not fixable, but you
are redeemable. The difference in the
two is as wide as the grave. Only the
life of Christ can remake the cities leveled in your heart by sin. Only He can give you life that will turn
sinless as He works all through you. You
will never be able to live with the filth inside you; at least not like the
lovely woman going into Victoria's Secret hoping to lure her boss away from his
wife. You won't be able to make heads or
tails of the tumult you know rages within you until you pursue Christ for your
condition. The woman who grasped after
Jesus' garment to stem the flow of blood knew what the rest of the gawking
crowd did not but you must decide is so as she did. Jesus really is the only hope you have and
you must choose to reach after Him
yourself and ignore the skeptics who blindly disregard how badly they are
bleeding too.
For if, when we were God's enemies, we were
reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been
reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Romans 5:10-11 NIV
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