Broken

   Why do we have to acknowledge that we are broken?  What does it mean to be broken?  What if we do good to others and try to live sin free?  Are we still considered broken?  Great questions and I used to ask these often.   The troubling fact is that we are broken.  We became sinful creatures in the garden and the only thing that has any hope of taking us out of condemnation (our sinful, broken state) into redemption, is the blood of Christ.  Our hope, out of our brokenness, is the promise of God through the crucifixion and resurrection of His Son Jesus!  This is the gospel, the good news of our only hope! 

 

     Now to answer those pesky  questions about being good.  Without Christ sin is present without hope.  We are dead in our sins. Our brokenness remains as our hearts are as stones against God.  Being “good” and doing what is “right” is not the same as loving God with all our hearts, minds, souls and strength, and this through the power of salvation through God’s salvation plan.  I know I write about the cross often, but folks, it’s the cross that bought our freedom from sin and death.  It’s Christ’s blood on that cross that allows us to pass through a life of entrapment (eternal death) to a life with hope.  A hope that includes a glorified body and eternal life in a returned relationship with God, our Father, our Creator, The Creator of all things.  Faith in Christ is our salvation.  Picking up the Bible and reading it, studying it, sharing it, is also how we know and love our God and His salvation plan.  He loved us first!

 

 

     We are broken in a broken world, but, rejoice!  Jesus has overcome the world.  We have a Savior Who saves us from our sinful nature (the fall) and gives us hope that is steadfast and will be fulfilled when we leave this life and complete our step into the new, eternal one.  In the meantime, we learn to be truly His, by acknowledging the brokenness that has held us captive and marching beyond that into healing, with all our hearts.