You Can't but God Can

I want to touch on the "First Miracle" noted earlier.

The amazing thing about faith, faith in Jesus Christ to be sure, is that once in, once inside the gate or sheepfold, there are a few things you can take to the bank. The first is, that accepting Christ as Lord means that you are now on God's VIP list, albeit by grace & adoption, and mediated by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. There are probably a lot of different ways to say it, but there you go.

Which means nothing from the time before is permanent. Which means the stuff you used to believe that couldn't change, can change. Now just stop for a moment and think about that. What are the implications of this type of thinking, or rather-- fact? Well the first and most important implication is that God can undo your dos. He can reach into the impossible to reach places, re-solder wires, stitch back together the frayed & broken strands of your identity, re-make hurts into wholes. How? He does this by dealing directly with your sin, by inviting, enabling & empowering you to deal directly with your sin— in Him. His is the greatest power at work in the universe and once this power (God's love), gets a hold of you, it simply has to bear fruit: It must effect miracles. And the biggest miracle (after the Crucifixion from which all other miracles flow) is the miracle of faith itself; an open gate of surging supernatural dialogue between you and God that, depending your availability (eagerness & willingness to believe), goes straight to work setting right all of the wrongs you were a willing part or unwitting victim of before you decided to stop lying and start living the Truth.

Which means, Because God is in the saving business, He is also (firstly) in the repair business. And everyone of us, broken as we are on the sharp rocks of original sin, regardless of who we are or where we come from, need our hulls repaired. We need them fixed to follow the current of God's calling and our destiny. A destiny that brings us back to Him, nearer to Him, next to Him. Which is where all the gold is.

What kind of gold?

Well, for starters, we learn that the word "sanity" means nearness to God. Therefore, the closer you get to God the saner you are, the more balanced you are, the more content you are, the less afraid you are.

Sin wrecks you; God repairs the wreckage. That kind of gold.