Acceptance: Our Future Secured

This may at first glance seem a statement out of touch with the reality of the world today. The reality is that followers of Christ Jesus live in an upside down and what may approach as in inside out world.

We have chosen to obey and to trust Him for out daily necessities. It is an action of our will and is driven if you will by our intellect. And the clincher is that as we surrender the details of our lives to Jesus He fills our lives with attributes like peace and joy. It is no major surrender when you consider that most people in the normal world experience stress overloads, of some degree or another, suffer from anxiety in their personal existence and apart from that some do not feel comfortable in their work/home life, as there is always someone or another who is scouting for their job, or their man.  This is, put simply, the sin stain that Jesus came to offer a way to resolve.

Jesus came quite simply to end the war between man and The Fathers plan for man. To do that it was necessary to put back a world that mankind had turned upside down in its desire to live the way that they seemed fit. We were intent on retiring God from His proper status and stepping up to the plate as His replacement with the resultant social discord.

The issue was not that mankind is the pre-emanate being on the earth. Man is not, God is. God created mankind to enjoy fellowship with us. The problem was that we thought that we were that we could run the place, our way; it has gone downhill ever since then.

Jesus began His public life by reading an excerpt from one of the prophets, as it was passed to Him to read in the Synagogue. It read like a political statement at the start of an election, but it detailed all the things that He did right through His public life. The original document is found in the Book of Isaiah Chapter 62.

The First thing in that reading is that today is proclaimed as the acceptable year for God’s people, that means everyone. Furthermore, it will be a time of healing for the sightless, deaf, and blind, setting right all the things that have hurt people in the times before. Almost all the people who are healed are told firstly to sin no more, and then to go present themselves to the religious leaders as the book of the law told them. The further part of Isaiah’s writing was to look after the widows and the orphans of our world and to top it off: to unload the pain of those living in poverty

There is more to this transfer. Jesus told the crowds that we should give Him our heavy loads and accept his lighter loads, along with the easier pulling on the wagon of life that is involved in serving the Master.  Christ gives us more than a light load, there is also a change in personality Jesus gives us peace, and a life of looking out for the best in others, and for others in our lives.

I now live through the life and words of Jesus. I have decided to live within His comfort and peace. I would not have it any other way. How about you?