ADVENT: Thinking About The Reasons For Jesus Seasons

ADVENT:
  Reason For Jesus Seasons Two

        As I think about these reasons for Jesus having come, coming into lives and His coming again,  I start remembering what happens when our lives have their first Divine intersections with Christ. Our personal advent (personal coming of Christ into our lives) results in us becoming intimate with Him through faith. And this causes a miracle to occur:  Paul says, "If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation.  The old has gone and the new has come." (See 2 Corinthians 5:17.) All the brokenness and sin that dominated our lives was healed, and it is being daily healed.  He actually works the miracle of supernatural spiritual life transformation, as we place our faith in Jesus who is the Christ. We no longer have to be victims of our past.  We no longer have to suffer for what others did to us. We have God's grace to overcome our victimization.  We can now be victors. We no longer have to suffer for our sins committed.  We become forgiven, and we get a clean record. 

  But more than that has and is occurring:  You may have never experienced anything but a great childhood, and all this stuff about victimization means nothing to you.  I had a fairly good childhood. It certainly had it's challenges, but it was an okay young life.  So I can really grasp having some sense of normalcy growing up. This begs the question.  What does this mean to people who had a relatively healthy upbringing with little or no trauma?  Here is the "Good News!"As new creations, we are given Divine, Holy Spirit power, to be godly! We have the power to be slaves to God rather than slaves to sin! We have the power to live life and not just muddle through life's challenges! Yup! WE ARE NEW CREATIONS!  God actually makes us NEW CREATIONS!  We are no longer sinners, but we are God's holy people. Some Bible translations call us Saints.   We may sin, but we do not have to sin. We may have been broken by life.  BUT we do not have to presently BE broken.  We can be over comers one step at a time, one day at a time as we "deny ourselves, take up our Crosses and follow Him," even Jesus, who has COME into our lives.
Blessings On You 2day
Especially Today
SoJourner

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Stepping Stones For Victorious Christ Centered Living #20 Shake A Little Salt

Image
  The Challenge of Having An Unsavory Life. We live in a world where a whole lot of people are suffering:  Many struggle spiritually. Others,  because of their spiritual issue, have emotional struggles. Still others have relationships that are strained. Financial issues also may be added into the mix; additionally, physical challenges,  or health challenges, are a part of this. Mix a little high pace, and rarely slowing down in life, and you can see something is really going on impacting life in a negative way. In other words  all of these, plus any number of other things experienced in the 21st century, contribute to people experiencing unsavory lives. Jesus Speaking to You and M e Jesus has something to say about this. And He wants each of us to help out by, first beginning to embrace our identity. He wants us "become" so we match our identity, and if we don't, we really miss out and mess up.  Check out what He says, as He expressly tells us who we are. A...
Read more

Looking Back To Have A Future: Overcoming Storms

Image
Stepping Stones For Victorious Christ Centered Living #1 Therefore, anyone who hears the words of mine-- and puts them into practice -- is like a wise man who built his house on a rock: The rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew, and beat against the house; yet, it did not fall, because it had its foundation on THE ROCK! BUT Everyone who hears these words of mine, and does NOT put them into practice, is like a foolish man who built his house on sand: The rain came down, the streams rose, the winds blew, and beat against the house. And IT FELL WITH A GREAT CRASH! Jesus (Matthew 7:24-27 S T O R M S Storms seem to come into everyone's life. Some experience more, and others experience less; however, the winds of adversity do, indeed, come. Some even howl like a Category-5  hurricane that beats relentlessly on the shores of people's lives. Dear Christ Follower, some of you know precisely what I am saying. And I am here to tell you Jesus provides us with Stepping Stones fo...
Read more

2024 Let God Help Make Your Life Beautiful

Image
Ready or Not Here It Comes Leap year is upon us. Yep! We get to have one extra day on the calendar of 2024. And as the new year opens up before our very eyes, whatever we bring into this year -- good, bad, happy or sad -- will be a part of the fabric of this new year. For some of us this will be challenging. Why? Because some are really struggling with what is going on in our culture. Many are having to grapple with spiritual, emotional, relational, financial and/or physical struggles. And just because people are saying "HAPPY NEW YEAR" these challenges are still very real. So, how are we to get ready for this if the new year, in focus, appears anything but happy? But Remember -- God I have learned that when life meets us head on, it is important to think of all these challenges, but remember God:  As Christ Followers, you and I are not in this journey alone, and as the ancient wisdom of Ecclesiastes 3:11a teaches, "God makes ALL things beautiful in it's time." ...
Read more