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 WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE

Anyone on the planet with even a semblance of cognitive clarity can tell you that things are not what they should be. There is an "echo" of Eden still vibrating in the human heart, even the darkest and most corrupt of hearts, that longs for something inexplicable, unknown, but longed for. There is a desperation to find our way "home" but being spiritually blind, deaf and dead, we will never find that way by human effort or finite initiative of any sort.

Things ARE meant to be different than what we see. Truth is, there is more to see than we have ever seen, and we will only "see" by God, Who gives us eyes to see. Until He opens our hearts to understand that we will never, can never save, rescue, redeem or heal ourselves. We remain blind, estranged from wholeness and true humanity. 

That longing, that echo of Eden that tells us there HAS to be more than this, can only be satisfied by surrender and turning from self to the One who created us. We are meant to be filled with Life in its fullness. God has made a way, THE singular and unique way, for us to be restored to God in wholeness, forgiveness and life-penetrating God-given peace. Jesus Christ, by His Incarnation (God becoming fully man, remaining fully God), by His Life, His Word and the signs and wonders that confirmed His Word, by His willing sacrifice on a Roman cross to pay the sum-total of the sin debt for all humanity, His Resurrection from the dead transforming humanity and sealing eternally the fact that all He said and did were and are eternally true, by His Ascension to the Right Hand of the Father, He has made THE way for us to be restored to God.

We can become new creations, receive new hearts, new spirits, and a new nature, the very Life of God to be lived out in and through us by the same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. That longing for humanity's true home, God Himself, begins to be filled in the here and now. We can find fulfillment, hope, and ultimate purpose. Hopelessness has been undone by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ!

What was supposed to be can be entered into by grace through faith: believing what God has done and settling for nothing less, receiving from God eternal Life, receiving forgiveness and a new way of being...made one with God. Being born again into a radically different way of living and being by the Holy Spirit, we can begin to grow more and more into what was supposed to be.

Don't settle for anything short of what God has done. There is no other way to experience what was supposed to be.

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