Today as I drove home from dropping off my son.. my mind started wandering to the things that are in my life right now.
Lots of new things are starting to poke through the ground (metaphorically speaking) and I'm starting to see the changes. But one thing has been ever-present... my belief in Christ is still this place in my heart where I don't completely understand.
Why is the Cross so very important? Why is it that Jesus can make such a difference in me? God, sent His son, in human form to die for me... so that He can remove anything in my life that would keep us apart. But why? Why does that prove He loves me? Why does it even matter?
So let's talk about this giant elephant in the room. Let's talk about what the Cross is and why it's so dang important, shall we?
Ok, first of all, I'm not perfect. (WHAT????) Yeah. It's the truth. (Hangs head)..
Little old me, I make mistakes. I try really hard not to, but they are there.. like a gross stain on the white t-shirt of life. And I can bleach the heck out of it.. you know, try to make up for it.. but there's so many stains! I've lied, cheated, stole, been an adultress (eck.. that one stings) and more! I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of. So I've changed my life to make up for it. I bleached my shirt, so to speak, and I can say that those stains aren't so apparent anymore.. but there's this other thing in my life. I believe in God. I believe that He created me, and that when I die I will have Him to look forward to. But guess what? Those bleached stains on my t-shirt of life? Yeah, they aren't so invisible to Him. He sees them. He knows they are there.
YIKES! So what I'm saying is if I choose to live this life of faith and believe there is a God who created all things then I have to follow His rules for all things..
Rule no. 1? Sin is a no no. You have to be without sin to be in His presence. No He's not this giant, evil kid with a magnifying glass waiting to fry the puny ant-people on this planet. If you read His book (The BIBLE, in case you didn't know) the very first chapter of the very first book tells us that He created the earth and people to share Himself. He LOVED His creation. Wanted to have a RELATIONSHIP with His creation.. He even made us in His own image! He was a proud Father... spent time with them, and gave them rule over all the earth. What does this have to do with me?
Well, this garden they hung out in is the scene of the first Sin in human history. Adam and Eve went against the direction of God to not eat from the tree of good and evil and became aware of knowledge that changed our history. They were ejected from the Garden because if they possessed that knowledge AND ate from the tree of life then eternity would be filled with a humanity that had sin in their life. NOT GOOD.
Fast forward to today and we see humanity still has this knowledge. Knowing Good and Knowing Evil. Doing Good and doing Evil. EVERYONE. No one is exempt. Including me. I do good, but I also do evil. Evil is whatever is not good. Do I really need to explain that? Well maybe I should, because lately this world seems to not have a handle on what the difference is.
If you're wondering what God's list is then look up the Ten Commandments. Those are pretty self-explanatory.. God's pretty black and white about what's good. If you're still not sure then take a look at the Bible. He's got some great examples of what's good AND evil in there!
For me, that means that I've sinned. All that stuff I've done in my life that was not good according to His word is all those stains on my white t-shirt that I was talking about. And I can bleach all I want, He still knows about them. There's nothing I can do to remove them. I need a new shirt.
God knows this. In fact, He already knew this even before I was born! He had a plan the moment Adam and Eve were created. His plan wasn't thwarted by those two.. no, it was put into motion! Because of this whole other deal with the one who started this crap in the first place... Satan.
Oh dear, I guess I'm gonna need to make this a three parter... Next up? What the crap is Satan and why does he even matter?
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