My experience with Jesus has been much like C.S. Lewis described it.
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not
only because I see it, but because by it I see
everything else.” CS Lewis
I
pray that the eyes of your heart will be flooded with light so that you can
understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people
who are his rich and glorious inheritance.
Ephesians 1:18
Ephesians 1:18
Before
becoming a believer I was interested in many things but I had did not have the
benefit of sight from God’s view.
I was in a forest and could not see it for the trees.
But then I became a follower of Jesus, and the “Son had risen”, so to
speak. That
changed everything.
“By the light of the Son” the forest came into view.
I came to see not only the forest but also where it came from and where
it’s going.
So
where is it going?
It and everything in it will be purged of sin and evil and it will be
transformed into a glorious “forest” inhabited by the most magnificent of
creatures, redeemed believers with new bodies, new Life in a new community of
incredible vividness, goodness, vitality, purpose, and love.
That’s
our confident hope. It’s
also our inheritance as believers.
It seems to me that knowing this changes everything today.
It
is for this that we rightly pray when we pray for others.
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