Happiness
on this earth is hollow, temporary, and in many ways as fleeting as a mouth
full of cotton candy. It can sometimes treat the senses and the emotions to a
short lived banquet, but in the end all of us are called to a trail of tears.
But in Christ there is more than earthly happiness. There is joy unspeakable
and full of glory. It is the kind of emotional reality that draws its strength
from faith and the immutability of the Triune God. It is a river which runs
deeper than this world can ever know. It is a life which breathes in another
world and whose heart beats with the invisible blood of His Spirit.
The
life which believes in and seeks to follow Jesus is a miracle of grace about
which words truly fail. It is filled with joy and hope and grace and a partial
grasp of eternity which carries with it a guarantee of a future fullness realized.
Struggles and tribulations will surely come, but in Christ we can drink from an
unquenchable well of living water that sustains the soul, refreshes the heart,
and provides life in a world of death.
This is
Jesus, my friends. Unleashed from some doctrinal prison and allowed to be the
tangible Lord of All, He alone has within His loins that which even the fallen
heart secretly seeks albeit in a multitude of dried up pools and scorched
landscapes. You see, Jesus IS life. He not gives life to all who believe, but
Jesus IS life. When you find Christ you have found life. There is no other
fountain other than Christ. And once you have found Jesus you know for a surety
that you never knew true life before.
Yes, we
must forever proclaim Him as Lord and Savior and the Giver of Eternal Life. To
those outside it seems like foolishness and religious superstition and
fanaticism. But to the most despicable sinner who has experienced the cleansing
power of His gracious blood it is the eternal nourishment which gives and
sustains his very life. All searches cease when you find Jesus…all searches but
one. When you have been made whole and stand forgiven by His grace the search
begins to know more and more of the One who opened your coffin and breathed the
breath of eternal life into your soul.
Halleluiah!
What a Savior!!!!!
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