...echoes...
When is the appropriate place in time that we start to be more than echoes of who we are meant to be? One of many definitions of an echo is a repetition or imitation. Maybe taking the other definition is more appropriate.. a remnant. But to say that we are an echo would insist that we were once the people that we should be or made to be. But that is just not so.. we have fallen short of the glory and the original mold.
On the other hand, maybe we are all echoes of the people we were when we first believed. When we first saw the Light and embraced Him. When we first forsook all that we had and claimed to be for the great journey. Somewhere between the pages of time and existence we forgot how we felt when Christ entered our lives and the Holy Spirit began that incredible transformation in us. I can faintly remember feeling The Spirit's embrace and change. The point where the old had disappeared and the new person emerged victorious because of the cross.
What happened? Have I gone so far only to realize that I am but an echo and a shadow of my self? It is the human problem. Correction... one of the human problems! Sin of course is THE human problem but beyond that it is the urge and desire to be more and if relying on ourselves we only turn to find out that we have fallen again.
The father of lies is here to distract and accuse and also lead us to believe that we have to be more than an echo of who we were or trying to be...
Galatians 3:10-14
But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”
But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.
We don't have to be more. It is because Christ has redeemed us and saved us from the evil one and his deception that we can let go of this relentless feeling of self loathing and finally be rid of being an echo of ourselves but in turn be an echo of Christ Jesus.
To be a Christian is to be His echoes...
On the other hand, maybe we are all echoes of the people we were when we first believed. When we first saw the Light and embraced Him. When we first forsook all that we had and claimed to be for the great journey. Somewhere between the pages of time and existence we forgot how we felt when Christ entered our lives and the Holy Spirit began that incredible transformation in us. I can faintly remember feeling The Spirit's embrace and change. The point where the old had disappeared and the new person emerged victorious because of the cross.
What happened? Have I gone so far only to realize that I am but an echo and a shadow of my self? It is the human problem. Correction... one of the human problems! Sin of course is THE human problem but beyond that it is the urge and desire to be more and if relying on ourselves we only turn to find out that we have fallen again.
The father of lies is here to distract and accuse and also lead us to believe that we have to be more than an echo of who we were or trying to be...
Galatians 3:10-14
But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands that are written in God’s Book of the Law.” So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”
But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.
We don't have to be more. It is because Christ has redeemed us and saved us from the evil one and his deception that we can let go of this relentless feeling of self loathing and finally be rid of being an echo of ourselves but in turn be an echo of Christ Jesus.
To be a Christian is to be His echoes...
We're getting into holiday time and you know how hard that's going to make us getting away. (Holiday's are such a special time of stress, no money and high gas prices. I just love them!) Having said that, I'm looking at early next year. You have anything going on we need to plan around?
love you,
m