If you’ve ever known the weight of your sin crushing you, ever felt like there was something against which you were powerless, ever experienced the defeat of just not being good enough, ever carried a list within you -- a long list of negatives, ever done something that seemed to sit upon you like a dense cloud, then don’t miss this Sunday.
There is one word in this passage today that is an echo and a fulfillment. We can lightly pass over it. It can mean nothing to us, but indeed this word, this one word means everything.
I remember the night I gave my heart to Jesus and remember that there were no fireworks or any great emotional experience, but I also remember that I began to hear His voice thereafter. And then Jesus, who had begun a new work, began to clean out the closets of sin. I had so many closets closed up in my heart in which I stored all kinds of bad feelings, hurts, transgressions, and guilt. And Jesus began to “clean house.” As he did so, something happened I never expected -- light began to dawn in the darkness and once clean it was like Christmas got celebrated in each of those places and the closets once cleaned out were opened up and set free from storing darkness. I remember the first time I experienced this overwhelming sensation of what felt like waves of love flowing over me. I remember how as Jesus cleaned things up, I could more fully experience all HE had for me. It was a process. But what this process was, is illustrated in the one word we will focus on this Sunday. The word “Carried.”
Truly, this is one of those remarkable, jaw-dropping revelations. That word can mean nothing or everything and when you hear the connections it makes, it might just jump to everything for you, that’s what has happened for me.
Come in. Don’t miss. Draw near. Let Him have ALL of you and let him do what He came to do for you.
Grace upon grace.