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What Verb Do We Expect?

What verb should connect “God” and “us”? He is the subject. We’re the object.

What action should we expect?

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don’t waste your life

by God’s grace i don’t live according to my failures. i have lots. i was separated from my creator because i believed and acted like i was my own god - i hated him. in my utterly broken and miserable life God came to me. because the eternal immortal infinite God of the universe came to me in the person of Jesus Christ to deal with my rebellion, sin and broken soul i have been reconciled to my creator. he lived a perfect life that i could never (ever) live and then made an exchange with me through his death. he died a death of righteous condemnation on a cross at the hands of a roman executioner. this was my death that i deserved. because God is more loving than i could ever have imagined, in return for nothing i could offer, Jesus gave me his perfect right standing before a holy and righteous God.

now i am free from the bondage of sin and death - my life is Jesus’. my failures are no longer counted against me - Jesus’ perfection is what God sees when he looks at me. where i was once an orphaned child of wrath, God has now adopted me into his family of perfect and holy children, made pure by the blood of his sacrifice.

Christ’s kingdom is already here (but not yet in its fullness); simultaneously a journey and a destination. Jesus is coming back again; this time not as a servant, but a warrior. he will judge every person that has ever lived and is now living by one thing:

Do you believe that Jesus is God and that he is the only way to be reconciled to God?

How could God ask that of me?

Excellent article from Nancy Guthrie

If we read the Bible assuming that we are expected to follow in the footsteps of those who are featured in its pages, we will find ourselves always trying harder to sacrifice and obey but never measuring up. We’ll assume that God asks us to do things that will make us miserable just to put us through a test of our allegiance—diminishing, rather than magnifying God in our hearts. But when we read the Bible recognizing that it is not about what we must do for him, but about what he has done for us through Christ, rather than being offended by what we fear he may ask of us, we find rest in what he has done for us.

Read full article here.