First week of the first month of the second quarter of the year is almost done, and all I can say is, well, the fun never stops. I find myself doing things that in my mind are unprofitable (meaning no income), and I’m not sure I’m going the right direction.
I’ve found myself praying, twice distinctly, in the days prior – Once, while I was driving, windows up, talking, and then screaming, profanities and all, to the Lord. Second, also when I was driving, just… drained. In tongues, in praises, but beneath a whisper, if there was any sound at all. It was more like my lips were just moving slightly.
Frustrated with myself, with the world, with my circumstances, and just as I would tell others, I would bring myself and all my burdens, in the most genuine ways I could – shouting at my loudest, or breathing in the silence.
I haven’t gotten any clear responses… but instead of demanding one from my Lord, whom I know would gladly respond, I focus on the fact that He already HAS responded: By His birth, death, resurrection and ascension. Finished, one time, for all time.
In the hours He spent nailed on the cross I imagine He was thinking about all of us, and all of me, the paths set before me versus the paths I chose to take, the consequences I was suffering from my action and inaction, down to this very moment that I’m typing all this – He saw me, He saw us all, and still endured.
From the moment He took His first breath as an infant, down to His state on the cross, He saw us all, and still endured.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:11
He endured, and when all was finished, I believe it was with some satisfaction that He took the sour wine, and said, confirmed, ‘It is finished’.
Christ’s timeless response to our time-bound, present circumstances is, ‘it is finished’. We have heard the word of the Lord, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, faith has come (Romans 10:17) – Authored into us by no less than Christ (Hebrews 12:2).
Christ’s response to our present plight was addressed in the past – He has made us to be accounted righteous. He has bore our iniquities.
In the acceleration, and in the overwhelming demands of this world, we would do well to know that, now and forever, Christ bore our iniquities and we have been made righteous. It is of utmost priority for all in the body of Christ to know, in the smallest of issues, and in the greatest of circumstances, that we are and always will be in right standing with Him. And in the shortest of pleasures, and the longest of trials, Christ has bore our iniquities – He became sin, that we would become His righteousness.
In the silence, or in the loudest of moments – whether the noise be from our mouths and/or from the world – We can remain at peace, satisfied even, knowing that Christ has, again, proclaimed us righteous, and bore our sin; Now, and always.
So I thank God, for Christ. For all He has done. For all He is doing, and for all He will do. I thank God for Christ, and for all He has done within the constricts of time and space, and for all He is and does, in the eternal infinities, and the infinite eternities.
He goes before us, beyond us, and beyond what our created minds could ever perceive, the epitome of greatness, glory, goodness and love; But though we are right to fear Him, we revere Him, knowing that He who is beyond ‘all’ sees all of us, and STILL chooses to respond with ‘all’ of Him.
The proof is not in the records of the past. It is in the vacated cross, the empty tomb… and in the hearts and minds of all who have been made new through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
I thank God, for Jesus Christ. For all of Him, loving all of us.
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
His mercies never come to an end.
They are new every morning, new every morning.
Great is thy faithfulness, o Lord;
Great is they faithfulness.
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