A New Beginning

 

I do my best to try and live my life with no regrets. Regretfully I am not always perfect at that. When I think back to decisions I have made or courses of action I have taken that didn’t work out, caused pain, or were just simply stupid, I kind of wish I could do that over.

I am reassured that God can take the mistakes I have made and use them to His glory. He can take the scars and help me teach others. He can clean up messes and bring humility, gentleness and forgiveness to bear. And how beautiful it is when we have a new beginning.

This week we celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Christ who bore our sins so that we would not have to. Christ who was crucified in our place. Christ who was through the resurrection demonstrated to be the Son of God. Christ who laid down his life, and picked it up. Christ who has made a way to a new beginning.

What humanity was helpless to do for itself Christ has done. A new and living way has been made for us to be restored to a right relationship with God. We are purified from unrighteousness. While we lean on that reality every day, the new beginning I speaking of is still to come.   It is a future event.   Christ’s resurrection was merely the firstfruits, it is the anticipation of the announcement, “It is finished” when every enemy has been made his footstool. When death is ultimately destroyed. It is only then that the full reality of our new beginning will be realized.

What a glorious day that will be.

I hope you will come and celebrate the resurrection with us and celebrate our anticipated new beginning.

See you at church,

Pastor Chris