Fresh water. A spring bubbling up from deep in the earth. Metaphors for the new life in Christ. We make it all so complicated when it really boils down to this, this idea of the unpolluted life. Jesus nailed our sin to the cross and He also clears the springs of our hearts when we invite Him into our every day. How does He do that? When we offer, to the best of our ability, our whole life to Him, He directs the things we read, what we say, who we listen to and what we watch. The whole of our existence flows in the river of His purity and love. It buries our past sins, our guilt, our shame and our wounds. We rise like the new creatures that we most assuredly are.
Feel you have failed at taking hold of this? So do I. I take heart in the fact that God knows I'm weak, that He knows I bring zero to the table on my own. He loves me anyway. He wants me anyway. Very hard to take in, yet WE MUST! We are not rejected for our failures, for our shortcomings...rather we are justified right in the middle of them. We are given robes of righteousness courtesy of the very high price Christ paid at the cross.
Our enemy spends every moment of every day working to cheat us out of the freedom Christ's sacrifice bought us. He tells us we are not paid for, that we must do, be and achieve more and more to be good enough for God, for His love, for His fellowship. When we finally realize that, as His deeply loved children we are blood-bought saints destined for intimacy with our Father and for a joy and peace-filled soul, then we can move on into every good thing He has planned for us!
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