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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....

He Set it Aside

Colossians 2:14 “by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.”
            
Saturday evening, I sift through the week’s moments and I add up my record of failure:
-…
-…
-…thoughts I would never blog
            
The Judge doesn’t even need to tell me the verdict before I know it. Legal demand: death, separation from God forever.
            
The truth I base my life upon brings me back to joy in this ordinary moment. “He set it aside.”
            
Substitute: Jesus.
            
My sin: nailed to the cross.
            
My heart rests in His perfect peace as He holds back the battles, the voices, and the demons of the week and of next week and of next year.
            
“It is finished” (John 19:30). He said.
          
And it is.




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