Lately - I have had a few people pass on some disturbing events that have taken place all over the world. Children tossed from bridges. Botched abortion attempts. Etc, etc, etc! It's impossible to look around and not see the effects of sin on this world. Tragedy is one way to describe it - but with these recent events - it's more than that. It's depravity! We live in a depraved world that is feeling the effects of sin.
In one of his great songs, Dave Crowder says, "I am full of earth, You are heaven's worth, I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity". To me, there's a depth to those lyrics, and a truth. He follows that up with the words, "You are everything that is bright and clean, the antonym of me, You are divinity..."
And in the midst of a crazy, messed up world, that's what I cling to. I cling to the fact that Jesus is God. And He is a God of grace and mercy - and I am a recipient of that grace and mery! He told us that we would have trouble in this world (John 16:33). But He also reminded us that we can take heart, for He has overcome the world.
It doesn't make it all go away.
It doesn't guarantee that I'll be completely shielded from it.
But it guarantees that He is bigger than it!
And with that I am content!
My prayer is that we, who are the Body of Christ, will rise up and live such godly lives that the name of Jesus Christ will be exalted!
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Monday, February 9, 2009
by Jonathan Goeke