Greetings Dear Reader,
“We hung up our lives”
In Babylon, their lives were already forfeit. They were slaves who lived and died at the
whim of a foreign king. Their lives were
not their own. We somehow think that our
lives belong to us.
On the one hand, we have free will. We are given the freedom to choose how our
lives unfold and what we do with each day; each moment. Our responses to the circumstances of the day
are ours to wield. We have the freedom to
choose if we follow Christ in the moment or not. We are asked to follow but the choice is
always ours.
On the other hand, whether we accept it or not, we belong to
God. The Father who created us has asked
that we give our lives back to him. His Son
has asked that we die to our own will, take up the cross, and follow him. In this, we also have a choice but our lives are
eventually forfeit either way.
We live at the pleasure, even the continual sustenance of
the Father. We do not have the power to
add a moment to our lives. The only thing
over which I truly have control is my choice to follow Christ. In following him I too must hang my life on a
tree. I too must agree with Paul in
saying, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in
the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
There it is again. The
call to follow is based on the love of Christ.
The foundation of everything is love. The small word becomes the narrow way. The journey home begins on the tree and the path is the narrow one of love for the Father and every human no matter the circumstances.
Once we reach the place where we are willing to hang our
lives on the tree, the cross, Dear Reader, we do become free. We are free to live in Christ and build each
moment into one where are alive in him. Building
life out of death is what the entire path of redemption is about. The journey home is a moment by moment
trading of a life that is built on death for one that will never die. The moments that matter are the ones where we
follow the Son with all our hearts in that moment.
I must hang up my life on the tree. It is where I will live and move and have my
being. You are always welcome to walk
with me there, Dear Reader.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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