The Root

Thinking of the cycle of sin today all I could picture was this. The root of sin is when you do what you think is right.

Out of our brokenness comes the Deliverer. No matter where we find ourselves in this cycle, God is there ready to intervene. If it's the first time around the mulberry bush or the hundredth, He never leaves us or forsakes us. What ever lies you have been told or led to believe NOTHING can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. 

We have the promise of it in God's word, we have the final answer our hope which is found in Jesus.

Romans 8:38-39 - For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The key - Christ Jesus our LORD! LORDSHIP! 

God has made a way and this is an image of His Upper Story.

 

For us to stop and think of the pain and suffering Christ endured for us on the cross is overwhelming. Each one of us have experienced PAIN, SUFFERING & LOSS none of us are exempt. Little did the soldiers who mocked Jesus know the power that came when they placed the crown of thorns upon his head. - Matthew 27: 27-31 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. 

I can't help but read this and think of the cycle of sin placed upon Christ's head the one who truly is the King of the Jews and Lord of our lives. Not to mention the staff they used to strike him on the head the same precious head which held the crown of thorns again and again (cycle). Psalm 23:4 gives us a promise - Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. The staff the soldiers used to strike him with is the promised staff that brings us comfort. WHEW... overwhelming! The things that Satan brings our way to destroy us are the very things God wants to use to redeem us.

What's our story? Who is lord of our life? Where have we been? What would our lives look like if we took what we have been through give it over to Christ and have Him redeem it for our good and His glory?

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