As we have begun to prepare our hearts and minds this week,
first with the celebration of Palm Sunday and continuing with the remembrances
of Passover, Good Friday, and Resurrection Sunday…or Easter…my thoughts turn to
how He has brought me and so many others back to life. It’s amazing how surviving a thing like
cancer can make you stop and realize how many things He has already saved us
from! We just don’t always take
the time to think about it.
2 Corinthians 1:10 “He
has rescued us from a terrible death, and He will continue to rescue us. Yes, He is the one on whom we have set
our hope, and He will rescue us again.”
Colossians 1:13 “God
has freed us from the power of darkness, and He brought us into the kingdom of His
dear Son.”
2 Timothy 1:9 “He
saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own
accomplishments, but according to His own purpose and the grace that was given
to us in the Messiah Jesus before time began.”
Over the centuries,
God rescued His people countless times.
He rescued them from slavery in Egypt. He rescued them from numerous enemies and afflictions. And time and again, they turned back to
their own ways. We read those
stories and wonder how they could have been so dumb! Yet we do the same things…just sometimes with a bit more
sophistication or secrecy. We
don’t all get together and build a big idol because our leader didn’t make it
back down the mountain in time; but we do have our idols…things that we can
touch and see and put ahead of our Lord.
What has Christ
saved you from? What has He saved
you to?
Romans 6:4 “We
were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just
as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may
live a new life.”
Romans 13:11-12 “Do this,
knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for
now salvation is nearer to us than when we first believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is
near. Therefore let us lay aside
the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
Ephesians 5:14 “For
this reason it says, "Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ
will shine on you."
Blessed Easter week!
Tamara
"What has Christ saved you from? What has Christ saved you to?"
ReplyDeleteThat always was a wonderful pair of questions, but it has double meaning after a marrow transplant. For what purpose am I still alive?
Once I toned down my grand ideas of touring and telling people about the journey I'd been through, and I settled down to just following God each day, giving others courage and hope as they come across my path, and directing them to the source of my life, I'm now really at peace with what Jesus has saved me for.
Oh, and glad to hear you're still around to be going after your purposes! I'm over 2 years post-transplant now. Aren't you just a little behind me?
ReplyDeleteOh, I see my last comment posted as "ancient-faith.com." This is Paul Pavao