Changed, Broken, and Redeemed
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C. S. Lewis says, ‘To ask that God’s love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable. . . What we would here and now call our “happiness” is not the end God chiefly has in view: but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.’
As you know, Simon of Cyrene carried Jesus’ cross before it was accomplished; Joseph of Arimathea offered a tomb once it was finished. Sometimes suffering, both personal and what we see happening in the world, makes it difficult to see through Lent, to Jesus’ crucifixion, and into his bodily resurrection, but it is the hinge that holds the world in God’s grace. It’s more difficult still to see through God’s story of redemption into the forthcoming story of a new Heaven and a new Earth, but we are indeed sojourning, since the Gospel is True and we’ve been bought with a price.
May [this end of] Lent bring all of us suffering, anguish, and reflection so we might stare deeply in the face of our Messiah and be changed, broken and redeemed.”
~Zach Kincaid
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