My Journey Backwards
This of course is a normal human feeling that we all share and experience at one time or another. I am speaking here about what we anticipate by looking ahead to the future. Most of our lives are spent “thinking ahead” and wondering what our future may hold.
I want to share with you today on my rather reversed journey that began several years ago and over the past year or so, has started to become very real to me and is continuing to get more real as my journey backwards continues to evolve. What do I mean by my journey backwards? Well after years of “looking ahead” and trying to figure out when the tribulation would begin, what happens to us if we have to go through the tribulation, how am I going to be able to stand what is mentioned in the Book of Revelation, did I believe enough to make it to heaven etc, I suddenly realized that my answers did not lie in the future but in the past. I began asking the Lord to show me what had happened at the cross and what implications that had on my present day existence in this sometimes awful and unpredictable world we live in. The Lord began to reveal to me (and others in this area) that what we needed for today was actually understanding what happened to Jesus at the cross and what He did there for us and the whole world when He drew all men unto Himself. When it began to be clear to me that He had redeemed the entire world, that I was fully justified, that I was righteous, that I was perfect, that I was reconciled, that I had received the atonement, that my sins were all taken care of, that I would never have to face judgment, that all this had been done by Jesus shedding His blood, my whole outlook on life, other people, my family, God, etc. began to take a dramatic change. I had a peace that I never knew existed when I realized that that had been given to me at the cross as well. I now had something to share with people because He has given us the Word of reconciliation. I am still on my backwards journey as I am learning more about the cross on a daily basis. All these things I mentioned are provided for us through His shed blood. If it is through His shed blood then it is not something we have to look in the future for but we have to look in the past instead. In Romans 5:10 in the latter part of the verse it says we shall be saved by His life. Therefore the resurrected Christ is now at work in me renewing my mind to the fact that all the things mentioned are mine because I am in Him and He is in me and as they become real in my mind and heart my ongoing salvation is in progress. The more I learn about this the more I realize that my mind is being renewed to a fact that has already taken place, it can never be changed, it can never be taken away, it will never be done again because it was perfectly done by Him at the cross. That is why Jesus could say with His last words “It is finished”. What God had come to do, which was reconciling the world back to Himself had been totally completed and fulfilled in His Son Jesus. I am still on my journey backwards by the way as I yet have loads to learn about the event of the cross. But as I journey I am finding more and more that His salvation is being made real in my life due to the resurrected Christ. I was reconciled by His death and I am being saved by His life. (Romans 5:10) What an awesome journey we are on. To be continued…..
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