If you're reading this, you're probably going through a hard time or you know someone who is going through a hard time.
Maybe you haven’t told anyone what you’re going through or maybe
you have and no one seems to understand. This song is for you.
Maybe no one else knows, but there is One who does.
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and
familiar with suffering.” – Isaiah 53:3
This is The Savior.
First comes death but then comes life! This is the cycle
found all throughout scripture. That is where hope comes from. It comes from
the promises that happen after death. You can’t have life until death occurs. (If you have time, click on the references and read the entirety of the verses below)
2 Tim 2:11 "... For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him."
Mark 8:34-35 "...whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it."
Gal 5:24 "Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires."
Gal 2:20 "... it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me..."
1 Pet 2:24 "He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed."
Col 3:3-7 "For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God..."
Rom 6:11 "Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus."
Jn 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
Rom 6:5-7 "... for he who has died is freed from sin."
What you’re going through is a process. It has a purpose,
although it may not feel like that at the moment.
God wants so much to give you life, but to have the life He
wants to give there must be death on your part. This is not a physical death
but a death that is spiritual, a death that occurs in your heart. It is a death
of your plans, your selfish desires, your pleasure, your everything. In
exchange God will give you new plans, new desires, new pleasures, new
everything, all leading to new life. A life that is sanctified [holy, set
apart, one-of-a-kind, blessed] and pleasing to God. But this newness of life
can only come after death. And that death is often very painful. Sometimes
extremely painful. It requires giving up something. But for everything you give
up, God will exchange it for something better, something that is life!
Mark10:28-30 28 Peter
began to say to Him, “Behold, we have left everything and followed You.” 29 Jesus
said, “Truly
I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or
mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, 30 but
that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the
present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and
farms, along with persecutions; and in the
age to come, eternal life.
The greatest life we could ever hope to gain is eternal life. That life is possible and only is possible because of death. Jesus died so there could be life for all who believe in Him. The greatest life was purchased by the greatest death. Whatever death you are facing, remember that in Jesus death becomes life!
Hang in there. He is faithful.
