More Than Healed
We have an inherited brokenness in our bones. We love the things that hurt us and want the things that are killing us. We lie. We run. We do the wrong things and we get angry.
Sin is not a cold jail cell, it is a flashy party, a comfortable bed, or a gentle path... but one that keeps us trapped nonetheless.
Thankfully, our God cares enough about us to rescue us. And yet time and time again, we find ourselves returning to the sin that entangles us so. Thankfully, God is forgiving, but does this mean that we can continue to seek the things we know are wrong, searching out momentary pleasure because we know His grace will cover our sin?
No.
Because what is so beautiful about our brokenness is not that we are broken, but the way in which God can heal us. As Paul explained to the Romans, "Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (Romans 5:20).
But God's grace doesn't just stop at healing us. If we allow it to, it transforms us. We become new people, shining with the radiance of God, His spirit flowing through our veins. Not only are we healed from the disease of death, but we are restored to full health and given life to the fullest. We no longer need to chase shadows in hope of finding something that will fulfill us... we have found the sun.
As John wrote in his first letter: "If anyone obeys His word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did."
So answer the call, brothers. Respond to the voice, sisters. Stand up and walk out of the room, the house, that has become your jail. Leave it behind and never look back. You have been transformed. You no longer need to return to your former ways... you have found a glory that eclipses the world and you cannot look away.
"Our God loves us enough to take us as we are, but loves us too much to leave us there." -Aaron Duvall, OCU Chaplain
Sin is not a cold jail cell, it is a flashy party, a comfortable bed, or a gentle path... but one that keeps us trapped nonetheless.
Thankfully, our God cares enough about us to rescue us. And yet time and time again, we find ourselves returning to the sin that entangles us so. Thankfully, God is forgiving, but does this mean that we can continue to seek the things we know are wrong, searching out momentary pleasure because we know His grace will cover our sin?
No.
Because what is so beautiful about our brokenness is not that we are broken, but the way in which God can heal us. As Paul explained to the Romans, "Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (Romans 5:20).
But God's grace doesn't just stop at healing us. If we allow it to, it transforms us. We become new people, shining with the radiance of God, His spirit flowing through our veins. Not only are we healed from the disease of death, but we are restored to full health and given life to the fullest. We no longer need to chase shadows in hope of finding something that will fulfill us... we have found the sun.
As John wrote in his first letter: "If anyone obeys His word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did."
So answer the call, brothers. Respond to the voice, sisters. Stand up and walk out of the room, the house, that has become your jail. Leave it behind and never look back. You have been transformed. You no longer need to return to your former ways... you have found a glory that eclipses the world and you cannot look away.
"Our God loves us enough to take us as we are, but loves us too much to leave us there." -Aaron Duvall, OCU Chaplain
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