Redemption
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 10:07PM Tonight at our weekly marriage book study, our pastor said,"God redeems what he allows."
I'm chewing on that one.
I believe the Bible is true. So...I believe that God is sovereign, good, holy, just, merciful, righteous, all-powerful, all-knowing. He created, he rescued, he redeemed.
And sometimes it is just plain hard to square all of that with the ugliness that we see all over the world. When it's hard to wrap my mind around it, (Why is there so much evil and bad in the world?) I know I need to adjust my perspective. This world is broken, and it's broken for a reason. God created it perfect and beautiful and good. Adam and Eve didn't trust him, they sinned, and pulling that fruit off of the tree was like pulling a small thread in a tapestry, which just so happened to hold everything together. The unraveling had begun.
God is a Master Weaver, though. As quickly as the good strong thread that was woven through all of creation came slipping and unlooping and tangling up in gnarls, God was already making a new masterpiece.
I'm going to get more familiar with this redemption, this loving restoration of what's all snagged, torn apart, holey. From holey to holy. So that every fiber of our being is new. From our beginnings, he was knitting us together. In the end, he will clothe us in righteousness.
Yes, all along, he is redeeming what he allows.
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I've become an absolute believer in redemption this year. On the level of miracles even. I had to slog through absolute crud to get there but . . . I really think I'm a better person.
My pastor said last summer that, "God cares more about our character than our comfort" and that is oh so true. The crud was excruciating but the result and the redemption are amazing.
(Still TOTALLY not a journey I recommend though!)