Aha!

I absolutely love how no matter how smart you are about God, He keeps making truths real to you and causes it to settle deep in your heart. I was raised in a Christian family and I'd rehearsed all the lines, but He became real to me and I am constantly 'relearning', or maybe 'really learning', about Him. They are the "Aha!" moments in our Christian walk.


These are two truths that I've known but that recently Jesus has been showing me in a totally new way.


At the cross when Jesus died, there was an unfair trade. There wasn't some hocus-pocus, God-magic done so that He could ignore our sins. God made Jesus to become sin (our sin) so that we could have the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21) Two things happened at the cross, God took away our sins and He gave us His righteousness. I guess I always thought that since I had begged God enough that He would just let my sin slide, but God is holy and just, He can't let sin slide. So God poured out all of His hatred and wrath for sin on Jesus so that we could be righteous. The reality is when I stand before God I am going to be perfectly right. Not because of anything at all that I did or did not do, but because of grace.

(Louie Giglio's Grace DVD series...watch it)

Also, I am so glad that God is bigger than me.

He is bigger than me and my small mind, my opinions and my way of thinking. He's also bigger than you. He is bigger than age, skin colors, languages, time, music genres, and cultures. He is bigger than preaching styles, prayer styles, and clothing styles. He is the God of the Democrat and the Republican. He is the God of the Calvinist and the Arminian. He is the God of the drum-beating African and the banjo-picking Texan. He is the God of the prayer-capped and the tattooed. He's bigger than it all.

If you think I am ignoring John 14:6 or advocating "everyone is going to Heaven" thinking then you missed the point. I just know that I don't have it all figured out and you don't either. We continually seek truth and follow in what we know to be right, and I'm so glad that the ticket to Heaven isn't labeled "Has All The Answers Correct" but rather "Accepted God's Grace".