Song for today: "Here Is Our King"/Artist: David Crowder Band
Two lines of the lyrics from this song go:
And what was said to the rose to make it unfold
Was said to me, here in my chest
The old belief I am challenging this coming week is going to be "Our spiritual pursuit has an earthly destination." This can be countered by Philippians 3:14 which says "I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which Gad has called me."
My spiritual journey had a point of origination. It will have a destination, but not an earthly one. Never on earth will I have "arrived" at the spiritual place for which I was created and redeemed. There are two spiritual destinations and the determination about which one is mine was made some time ago. One destination is a conscious reality in God's presence for all of eternity (heaven). Another destination is a conscious reality with out God (hell). The degree that we can understand how wonderful or terrible each is limited by how much we can understand what it would be like to be in God's presence.
In the Bible it says that my destination was determined from eternity past when God, in His grace and mercy, chose to adopt me as His son and make me an heir with Christ. In doing this, He has given me something I could not earn. God's determined plan became a reality when I heard the Gospel, that Jesus Christ alone through His Person, life, death, burial and resurrection bore the penalty of my sin and I trusted in Him and trusted that His work was sufficient. That was a transaction where God set aside the penalty due me for my sin and conferred upon me the rights of an adopted son. It was at that point that my heart began to unfold and the path of my spiritual journey toward heaven separated from a spiritual journey that would have led to hell.
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