Freedom and a New Story

With Easter fast approaching, we are once again taking time to acknowledge the indescribable sacrifice that was made for every single person and for all of creation. The power, mystery, and beauty of the Cross still stands after 2000 years, which tells me it's more significant than we could ever begin to fully grasp.

Jesus' death and resurrection, for me, can be pretty well summed into one word.

Freedom

Free from the laws before Jesus, free from hell we put ourselves in, free from our brokenness, free from fear, free from anxiety, free from the vices that keep us from living in abundance, free from the negativity we harbor about ourselves and others, free from ourselves, free from death. The list could go on.

Free Free Free

The power of the cross is that it rewrites our story. It paints us in a new light. It gives us the option to have heaven now. It gives us a glimpse of the fullness we will experience for all eternity, in the age to come. It redefines who we are. It says we don't have to be separated from God now, or ever. THAT is what compels my heart. THAT is worth living for.

See, pre-Jesus' death and resurrection we were undeserving, unworthy, and not able to have perfect union with God, but Jesus changes everything. Jesus says we are deserving, we are worthy, we are able to be unified with God. When we choose to embrace that our story has been changed, that our life is made new, and that we are viewed and thought of as whole, we live differently. We are driven to share that.

The journey of faith and knowing Jesus, is the journey of discovering the exact thing our souls were made for. Wholeness, love, and newness. Jesus makes all things new. His mercies and grace are new each morning. We long to be new and recreated. Jesus' death and resurrection does just that.

Freedom from the old, a new story, a life lived in fullness, and the hope that outlasts this time. THAT is worth living for/in. THAT is the Cross.