We were used to the same old rule.
Promises of something better. Promises of the much needed changes. Promises to get rid of everything that prevented progress. Promises to support everything the promoted growth. Promises, promises, promises.
Hope that these promises would come about. Sincere intentions to bring about the changes. Slow realisation that just as much effort was needed to maintain the machinery of power that could enable the change. Growing realisation that the mode of change had to be treated carefully so as not to upset it. More focus on maintaining the vehicle of power than in steering the vehicle along the road of the promised changes. Eventual dissatisfaction from others that the change wasn’t happening. Up pops someone else making the promise to make those changes.
So the cycle goes on. So the promise for something new only replaced by the reality of something old. Desire for something different to be replaced with something familiar.
That is until Someone comes along who does not just promise something new, but actively embodies it. Someone living out the change that they want to see. Someone aware that the levers of power in the world in which we live were never designed for the change that was needed. Someone who knew that the real change had to be an inside job. An ongoing and on-growing inside job. The growing realisation of this new way of life is based on truly all things becoming new in this Someone who lives the new. Someone who has put the levers of power back where it belongs – in the hands of the Creator. Someone who exercises the will and desire to do what is right in teh sight of the Creator. Someone who recognises that the golden rule and the command to love the neighbour as the self is not ever fully realised without constant reference and reverence to the One who made us.
Then all things are new and the mind is renewed to go on realising the all things new that happens under this new rule. A rule that is not about promises made that cannot be kept. This is life that is lived by the power of the Spirit of the One who made you. This Spirit is a guarantee that the hope that we have will be realised. The peace we experience with the One who ushers in all things new will not just stop at us and beacons of His light. It will be something that will extend far and wide in a universe itself when all will be made new.
It is this hope from the One who exhibits the new that propels us in the present to make the most of it. Loving, giving, caring, supporting, building, presenting and inviting others to experience the all things new kind of rule.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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