"Over and Over"

"Then the proud waters had gone over our soul." (Psalms 124:5)

  It is really not about something that is rhetorical, because there is nothing here that is impressive or even able to persuade; it is about being real with ourselves and knowing where we stand with God, because, if you think that you are somehow willing and able to stand on your own, you have lost all touch of reality. That said, there is something here that is can be presented as proof of our standing; dare I say, our sinful hearts! The whole point of what I have been saying, is that is what we are, we are sinners saved by God! This is what Paul declared in his letter to Timothy, saying, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." (1 Timothy 1:15-16) We cannot take away the sinner and still expect the miracle to look the same; yet, there are some that will try and make that claim; which, in reality, has no standing in Christ. (No pun intended!) I was glad Pastor Bryan went back to 2 Kings 6:1-7, because I was a little disappointed that we skipped over it the Sunday before. He mentioned something about the "ax head" being a work of God, not belonging to the person that used it, but being borrowed from God. This is the whole point of our salvation, in that it is not really ours, it belongs to God. And yet, all that we need to do in order to obtain it, is to just reach out and take it up! We cannot earn it, we cannot buy it, we cannot even claim it as our own. We are the property of Christ; He purchased us with His blood, and in so doing, in very real and glorious way, we are that ax head! Don't you see how that works? How can you claim something that is not yours, even if it is actually you? When did this actually happen? What does the mucky waters represent? I guess we will just have to wait to find out those kind of answers. But in the current state we are in, we must just remain seated in Christ...

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world onto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, that knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:17-21)