Written by Wendell E. Hutchins II, on Thursday, 19 April 2007

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It is rare in an individual’s life when they have the opportunity to explore new vistas of holy revelation and revel in the goodness of God in new dimensions! Often we, as mortals, are bound by the surly bonds of immediate need and stringent agenda’s that make no time for the holy encounter God desires for each of His children. As a result, we often carry pains and hurt whose calloused, corrosive hands attempt to taint and cover all that is good in our lives. Bitterness and Unforgiveness are mercenaries from hell who wish to spoil us, the children of God. Our culture is a living testimony of a people wallowing in the forlorn. Broken dreams, battered lives, lost loves seem to be the fare for the Broadway of life. These world travelers live a life that is haunted by the “what if’s” and “what might have been”; the common anthem that spoils pure hope, true love, and righteous liberty.

Brave men and women of God today are making great efforts to travel on a thoroughfare not many have found. A journey at times that could be called lonely; at other times, even called harsh because of the confrontation of Truth – but a journey nonetheless that rewards its pilgrim with glimpses of a life filled with pure love and unmerited favor. A journey worth the toil that rids us of our “soil,” for in it we recognize that we are nothing more than “Adam’s seed” whose best promise is to return to dust & darkness. But Jesus, in His all-wise love, reaches us and shows us His nature by showing us agape love extended from His pierced hands of brokenness.

It is astonishing to note how many people have been spoiled in this Christian journey as a result of not knowing the “love” of God. The “love” of God creates new beginnings, a new birthing place for each of us. A new birth offers new life with new joy expressed in a new and better way. And yet, many are reluctant to venture into God’s new life, for it is a radical, new kind of existence that is always challenged by the Pharisaical voices of dead religion. When we should be pressed by the overwhelming dread of our sin, most often we are pressed by those ideologues who want to exempt us from our new birth, new life experience. They write libelous articles, books and tracts disclaiming brotherhood with anyone seeking God’s new and better way!

Irregardless, the time of a “new beginning” – yes, a “new birth” has come. We move along the strange path we barely understand, for we have never traveled it before. The heavy walls of self-doubt and inner confusion constrict in strangling closeness.  Why, why, why, God? Why this pain? Why the dark mirror of repentance that makes us see ourselves as we are?  We cry in the unsure, unfocused, crushing void. Yet it is a warm darkness that aches for the anguish to die. There is a washing of inner light. The long umbilical cord that bound us to dying is cut. Life rises like a phoenix from the ashes of things confessed and done with. We are born again. And what is this golden glory?  It is the moment of birth, the gift at the end of our waiting. Now we belong to Jesus Christ – not in words of religious confession or the piety of self, but in a bond of love signaled by the Ever-Present One and His disciples who surround us with their own testimonies of deliverance and joyous freedom. For the first time, we love and adore the Holy One who labored to bring us such transparent life.

The great glory of our faith is the name Immanuel, for God in Christ, came to be with us. You see, He is not only with us in our times of jubilee, but He is with us in our times of horrible failure and great despair. He has always been there, for He is our fellow struggler! He is the God of our human condition and need! As a result, He descended in love to the point of our need so that we could rise and shout “I am free.”

Put down the voices of fear, doubt and unbelief and begin today to trust that God has called you into His Kingdom for this hour. Consider your worth to Him, His Kingdom, and your generation. Will you invest your life in the soil of a dying generation?

Join the revolution! We need your help to move this generation from religion to relationship; forever communing with the Holy and being healed in their spirits by His love working in us!

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