New Beginning part 2
First there was the beginning. Of the story. When God created heaven and earth. The mind and the body. You. The beginning of YOUR story. And in the beginning of your story you didn't know very much. Babies don't. And that doesn't mean babies are bad. My son, Logan, doesn't like babies because they cry a lot and he doesn't like loud noises. But, as I've Ranted on before, babies don't cry to be mean. Babies cry because they need to be taken care of and they don't know any other way to communicate. So when, say, an adult is crying and throwing a fit... use some wisdom. There are times when... let me quote the gambler... You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em. Sometimes when someone is crying they need help. Sometimes when someone is crying they need to be told to knock it off. Discernment. Wisdom. But the point I'm TRYING to make today is that you learn and grow. Or... you need to learn and grow. When it was dark out OF COURSE we stumbled around. We couldn't see clearly. We tried to do the best we could with what we had, but we didn't think we had anything. So we ran around--in the dark--like chickens with our heads cut off trying to get whatever we could. Because when you think you have nothing, anything seems better than that. But I can tell you from experience, unless its the RIGHT thing you're better off without out. So the problem wasn't that we were babies. The problem was that we couldn't see clearly. We couldn't see that even in our infancy the Spirit of God--the Spirit of LOVE--hovered over the face of the deep. God swore He would never leave us nor forsake us. And that didn't just start when He said that. That's how it has always been and will always be. Forever doesn't start or end. Everlasting life has always been there. Will always be there. Because everlasting life is everlasting love. And in the beginning God created. Love created. In the beginning was the Word (Jesus, LOVE). That Word, "Let there be light"... that Word, "I love you and I can't stop loving you"... is the creative power of God. Look at John 1:3 real quick, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." All things were made by love. There is nothing that was made... that wasn't made by love. Love is what makes everything. Love is what holds things together. Even when you can't feel it. When its so dark out that you can't see any reason that anybody would possibly love you. COULD possibly love you. That's when people cry out. That's when people need help. When its dark out, that's when you need the light the most. And the best part is... we ARE the light! We don't just have it, we ARE it. We are the light of the world. The same light that Jesus is. Because HE is that light IN us. Not just shining ON us, but shining out from WITHIN us. That's what happened on the cross: It was the New Beginning. The light shined. Everything was revealed to be in Divine Order. We were--in a sense--transformed into a new creature. Conformed into the image of God's Son. Our new, TRUE, identity revealed so that we might know who we are and, in knowing, BE who we are!