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[dropcap2 variation=”coffee”]I[/dropcap2]n a previous post, we thought about how to know God better by considering the issue backwards: How to Keep God Out of Our Life. We came up with four strategies for keeping God at a distance:
- Don’t seek him
- Stay busy and distracted
- Focus on being in control
- Make life all about us
As I thought about these things, I found myself smiling. Yes, we can try to keep the Almighty at a distance, but we really can’t keep him out of our life. He’s already involved to the hilt.
He planned us before time began. He decided the times and places where we would be born and live. He wanted us. He personally created us in his image. And two thousand years before we took our first breath, his Son came and crashed through every barrier that could possibly separate us and him.
I take that back. Jesus didn’t just crash through those barriers, he pulverized them. Love propelled him through rejection, flogging, beating, heckling, abandonment, and horrific suffering. As his life expired on the cross, his death made a way for sin to be taken away and forgiveness to be freely given.
And then he rose from the dead. It might have been quiet and peaceful, but spiritually the resurrection was akin to an indestructible superhero smashing through the most secure dungeon as if it were tissue paper.
Bam!
We can not only be forgiven, but we can have life. Real life. His life.
Nope, we can’t keep him out even if we wanted to. He loves. He pursues.
Look. There he is. Again.
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