Galatians 1 v 4
Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as
God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we
live.
One of the best places to sit and enjoy the
world is a park bench. Every weekend
when the weather is nice and the sun is shining I can be found at the park with
my daughter, sitting with other parents as she happily plays.
As I sit there, in my own little world I
sometimes connect with the life of the triune God that lives within in. It
amazes me that Christ should desire and come and dwell within me. But that is
exactly how God planned it, before time was created God planned that Christ
would die in my place, as me and that I would be adopted into God’s family. All
I had to do was to believe in him and trust him for my righteousness and not my
own efforts.
Amazingly, when I believed I received a new
nature and my old sinful nature was killed.
So as I sit with the other parents, I am
totally different, I am seated in heavenly places although I am also seated on
the park bench.
John Crowder explains how we live in a
different reality: -
The problem is not that you have a sinful
nature. The problem is that you don’t realize you are new. This is why it
imperative to renew the mind with the truth of the gospel. The good news is
that you died, and now you are 100 percent new. Not just a new version of the
old you. You are completely new in kind and quality. A supernatural child of
God, fused into a whole new world – a whole new paradigm. You may be sitting
next to a sinner on a park bench – and although it seems like you are both in
the same place, you are actually in a whole different parallel dimension from
him called heaven on earth. You are now seated in heavenly places. You are the
righteousness of God. You are a citizen of Heaven. In Song of Solomon 4:7 he
says of you, “All beautiful you are, my darling; there is no flaw in you.”
I have been rescued from the evil world, I
live in a different realm, and my citizenship is in heaven. Christ in me is the
hope of glory.
and while we are far from each other on that bench hopefully it becomes all the more reason to connect....smiles.
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