What if ....?

Everything sad - everything desolate.

Everything horrific that should never have been.

Everything that you regret. Everything that overwhelms you and terrifies you and beats you.

What if all these things....

... are...

already

coming untrue? *

What if the scars that you carry. That weigh you down. That you wish were not there.

What if they are your greatest glory...

Because you can look at your Saviour's scars - still there - permanently there, for all the world to see, forever, in heaven

and see that his scars show you:

that in your death, you will have HIS life
that in your weakness, you will have HIS strength
that in your shame, you will have HIS honour
that in your brokenness, you will have HIS wholeness
that in your sickness, you will have HIS health

IN your sadness, you will have HIS joy


What if...?

What if... for now...
taking up your cross
and stumbling under it
and straining with all you have
and failing and beginning again and again and again and again (in his strength)


What if ....
that is strength? That is the life that is truly life?

What if

that is freedom - so that you will be forced to not rely on yourself but on him...

who raises the dead?


What if that is ...

Exactly what he wants for you?

What if ..... ?
*('Everything sad is coming untrue' - Tolkien's phrase from The Lord of the Rings - via Keller!)

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  1. Ah, sheesh, Reynolds. Thank you :) Guest post on it sometime for me?

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  2. Aah Cat, desperately needed to hear this today. God bless you!

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