Aug 29, 2018
I urge you to live a
life worthy of the calling you have received. Eph 4:1
God’s love and
forgiveness calls us to something far greater in life -- offering eternal life
to everyone around us.
There are some natural laws in life that are so common we
tend to forget about them.
Take the law of gravity.
A man was shooting off his gun in his back yard, celebrating an event,
when all of a sudden a bullet came down and grazed him (practically killed
him). Like everyone else, he knew about
gravity, but simply forgot about it at the time. (It could be he was also forgetting about the
effects of alcohol on the logic section of our brains.)
One law I tend to forget about is something I will call the
law of transfer. When something is added
to a system, there will always be something that eventually exits. I tend to forget that when drinking a
Super-sized ice tea on car trips, or having too much water the hour before I go
to sleep. Sooner or later, those 24+
ounces of fluid are going to transfer out of my body – which tends to lead to
road stops or midnight wakeup calls. (And the older I get, the more that
happens!)
That law of ‘transfer’ also applies to Forgiveness. When we come to Jesus and receive forgiveness,
it’s like a HUGE glass of pure, fresh water to our souls. Much like a hot shower can clean off the dirt
on our bodies, this water of forgiveness has the power to cleanse our souls of
all sin – past, present, and even future!
It fills our spirits with a gift of God that only comes through the
saving grace of Jesus on the cross.
There is NOTHING like it in the world.
Drinking from the cup of forgiveness is the most refreshing drink ever
tasted.
But with it comes a transfer. When we were given the cup of forgiveness, it
came with a calling… to transfer that forgiveness to others. Just like water enters and exits the body,
forgiveness enters and exits the soul.
Our souls were designed to release forgiveness to others as a way of
processing the forgiveness we received.
The Cup of forgiveness is an endless supply. It never empties, and is constantly being poured
into our lives by Jesus. Our job is to
release that forgiveness onto others, and allow them to have a small taste of
the Cup available for them. By touching
our forgiveness, it creates a thirst for God’s forgiveness.
Don’t try to violate the law of transfer (or whatever name
it truly is called). Offer forgiveness
to EVERY person around you, and allow your soul to flow with the saving grace
of Jesus. Live a life worthy of that
calling, and watch how God uses it to bring others to the watering fountain of
Grace.
Otherwise, you might find yourself dealing with a lot of
road stops and wake up calls. J
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