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Why the Cross?
The expression, “we got them right where we want them” gets a lot of play around my house.
I typically use it tongue in cheek when the team I am rooting for gets down by a lot of points and all seems hopeless.
It is suppose to mean the place from which the most good can come.
For instance, a student in a class room.
A golfer on the driving range.
A debit card which does not work.
A teenager in their bedroom without their phone.
The place from which most good can come,
Mark 15:
mark 15:22-
Jesus, right where God needed him.
As hard as it is to say and hear, the cross was the place from which the most good can come.
Joseph Mitchell to his dying sister, per Fleming Rutledge…What does Jesus dying on a cross 2000 years ago have to do with my sins today?”....”Somehow, Jesus was our representative.”
Jesus said himself that not only was he our representative but also our example.
He demanded that to be his follower you must...
What does it mean to take up our cross?
How can we follow in Jesus’ example?
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At least 7 other places throughout the OT does it mention the need for a heart religion and not outward religion.
Or as the message says,
What God wants is not our sacrifice for sacrifice sake, but God wants us to be in a position where his grace can do maximum impact.
And that happens when we are broken / crushed / and fully ready to depend on God and not ourselves.
But that is counterintuitive.
The world sees hope in strength.
God sees strength in our weakness.
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For the past decade I have been wrestling with how we become receptive to God.
What can we do to put ourselves right where God’s grace can have maximum impact.
I’ve seen how it happens through external circumstances.
It has been said that there are no athiests in foxholes…I’ve also seen very few around a deathbed, or in the cancer centers, or after the pink slips, or during the divorce, or after the betrayal.
These events often crush any self-dependence and drive us toward God-dependence.
External Circumstances that bring about being broken / crushed:
illness
death
loss
But why does it always take tragedy to draw close to God?
That seems cruel of God!
And then I realize that God has made a way for us to develop dependency.
We just rarely ever know about it or take advantage of them.
That to me is one of the greatest things we need to rekindle in the church.
Internal Decisions leading to the same
sabbath
fasting
gratitude
generosity
sabbath
fasting
Lenten practices
Lent, the perfect opportunity to place yourself right where God wants you.
To intentionally soften your heart and become receptive to the good words, the good desires, and the good power which flows from God’s Spirit at work in and through you.
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