January
9th 2014:
“Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold,
the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to
himself and gave s the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was
reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them,
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.” -2 Corinthians 5:17-19
Patterns
are interesting and we find them all over the place. Math has patterns of
numbers and for how to solve equations. Weather has patterns for how long will
it be hot and how much snow will we get this winter. We have patterns and
routines that we fall into during our week. One of my favorite patterns is my
day off! I wake up and take my wife to work. Then I stop by Caribou Coffee on
my way home for a $1 medium coffee. I then proceed to turn on the TV and watch
1 hour of SportsCenter, and then 1.5 hours of First Take. Then I clean the house,
do some dishes, and take my wife some lunch (Best part!). Finally I come home
and play video games for another hour generally online with my brother until I
have to go pick my wife up after work. Patterns are wonderful!
Well most patterns that is. You see,
I don’t know what your patterns are and how you go about your daily lives but I
bet I can tell you a pattern that we all fall under. It starts with sin. We sin
and sin and sin. It’s a pretty easy pattern to fall into, in fact we are very
prone to this pattern because it is instilled in us from the day we were
conceived. Thankfully there is another pattern that we can participate in, and
that is forgiveness and reconciliation. Our God, who made us to be like Him, knows
and understands that we suck. To quote Paul we “do not do the good [we] want,
but the evil [we] do not want is what [we] keep doing.” (Romans 7:19). Even if
we try our best we just can’t be good and that is why God continually gives us
forgiveness from the sins that we repent of and reconciles us back to Him so
that we can ultimately spend eternity where our only pattern will be
perfection! I can’t wait to be perfect!!
“The
pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation,
restoration.”
–Edwin Louis Cole
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