Receiving God’s promises comes by faith. Hope is believing for something beyond our current situation. Our perception of God’s Love directs our choices. In other writings I’ve described wrestling with my weakness. I ask questions: When am I going to experience freedom? I can declare aloud, “I am free,” but at the same moment, I wrestle with, “How true is that?” Hope, faith and love are so familiar, yet so mysterious.
Israel cried out for freedom with great groaning, they suffered, they experienced loss of their children because of evil. How different is it today? Parents, wife/husband, children, or deeply connected friends have died or run away from us. What happened? Deep questions need deep answers.
Ask: Do the wounds of childhood (and adulthood) completely vanish? Is healing a real thing? Do I have a high enough level of trust so healing takes place? (I’m honest and answer no, but Jesus in me says YES and creates a new human, his decision is unchanging) Does the promised new reality come at the snap of finger once we believe Jesus? Or can you say with Apostle Paul, “I’m content with much, or with little?” Paul’s attitude is connected to the new covenant, a power outside of himself that came within him.
Imagine the power which overshadowed Mary so that Jesus, the perfect human, became an embryo within her. This is the same power that installed a new creation within you. It is the same power that reached into dust and created Adam. The same power to transform our minds acknowledges that though we are chief of sinners, a new and redeemed life already birthed is growing inside us. Faith begets this new life because of God’s promise. Again, acknowledge Yahweh’s creative power plus “I am with you” is active in us by faith…and receive the promised and completed gift.
