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Rev 22:1-
Like water, to the panting deer, these words come from the Lord to you and me.
While it is true that you and I live in a God- Created, God-bathed world, it is also true this world is riddled with DEATH, DARKNESS, and DECAY.
The Earth is broken — earthquakes all around, just this week.
Our bodies are broken — Marla and hospice
Our names are profaned — listen to the insults
Our big cities are riddled with caste systems and prejudices
Our small towns are riddled with caste systems and prejudices
Our songs drip with rage, betrayal, and heartache
Our churches are filled with cowards and hypocrites… with gossip and immorality.
In the center of the chests of the billions and masses are old, small, hard, withered, Grinch-y hearts.
The challenge with such hearts isn’t their size.
How dead they are.
How dark they are.
How decayed they are.
TOT BE SURE, there examples where LIFE, LIGHT, and LIBERTY break into a world which feels overrun by death, darkness, and decay?
Of course there are!
God is not dead… The Kingdom is near and on the move!!
The random act of kindness
The organ donor
The heroic single mom who puts her baby up for adoption
First responders who save kid and kitty
Communities that rally after floods and tornadoes
Yes… LIFE, LIGHT, and LIBERTY break through from time to time, but the Kingdom of Darkness — evidenced by death, decay, division, and discrimination — are all around.
The debate rages over whether the earth is old or young… billions of years or thousands of years.
Some prefer “life is too short”
Others prefer “life is too long”
BOTH are lamenting the assault of DEATH, DARKNESS, and DECAY… and the age they put on all they touch and consume.
In our lifetimes alone so many voices have attempted to help us cope with the darkness!
In our lifetimes alone so many voices have attempted to help us cope with the darkness!
Innovative, creative, inspiring voices:
Kennedy said “be patriotic”
King said be a “freedom fighter”
Dr. King said “be a dreamer”
Nixon said “be paranoid”
Ford said “be pardoned”
Carter said “be good”
Reagan said “be great”
Clinton said “be all about the promises of tomorrow”
Bush 43 said “be on guard”
Obama said “be audacious”
Trump says “be great again”
Miller said “be in the mood”
BB King said, ‘be blue”
Presley said “don’t be cruel”
Carpenter said “be a superstar”
Dylan said “be forever young”
Jager says “be satisfied”
Cash says “be in the ring of fire”
Carol King & James Taylor say “be a friend”
Joel says “be a big shot”
Adele says “be hurt”
Bruno says “be funk
Jimmy Buffet says ‘be drinkin”
Lennon and McCartney say “let it be”
DAN and SHAY say “be close to your Tequila”
Luke Combs says “be crazy beautiful”
The Jonas Brothers say “be a sucker”
Sheeran and Bieber say “be care free”
Swift says “be calm”
Post Malone says “be psycho”
Billie Elish says “be a bad guy”
DAN and SHAY say “be close to your Tequila”
Povich says “be DNA tested”
Lennon and McCartney say “let it be”
Brene Brown says “be vulnerable”
Gates and Buffet say “be philanthropic”
Oprah says “Be empowered”
DeGenerous says “Be kind”
Springer says “take care of yourselves and each other”
Where absurdity reigns, being clever is King.
None of them have been able to stem the tide of this overwhelming sense that DEATH, DARKNESS, and DECAY are assaulting the world we live in — the world God created.
There are times when you have to start with the end of the story…
Life is one of those times.
This is why is ESSENTIAL reading
Aslan lives
Aragon becomes King
Potter lives
Anakin lives
Cinderella gets the Prince
It all shapes how you read the story...
And when you read the story of your life, what ending is shaping how you are reading your story?
Here is the most important line in all of our stories… here is what Jesus says:
Behold, I am making all things new.
They say, “you make it new.”
Jesus says, “I’ll make it new”
There are things Jesus won’t make new:
No new Temple
No new Sun
No new Moon
No new night
The list of things Jesus makes new… is needed news for the hearts of those longing for the old to be made new:
New Heavens
New Earth
New city — new Jerusalem
New Body
New Clothes for the new body
New Name
New songs
New commandment
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