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In normal life your celebrations don't usually intersect with your sad times and your sad times aren't typically your times of celebration. When you’re sad, you don't really feel like celebrating anything much. The opposite is also true; when you’re celebrating, you don't want your good spirits dampened by reasons to be sad. We try our best to keep our sadness and our celebration separate. It just makes life less complicated. But Jesus has called us to be a sadly celebratory community, or a celebratory sad community. Why is this true? Because Jesus calls you to a life of uncompromising honesty and a life of unchallenged hope. If you’re going to be honest-really honest--then you’re going to be sad. Why? Because you can’t be honest without recognizing the horrible legacy of damage that sin has left on each one of us and on the surrounding world. Sin damages us, it damages our relationships, and it damages our environment. There’s nothing you’ll ever examine or experience, this side of eternity, that hasn’t been damaged in some way by sin. The destruction is so widespread it almost leaves you breathless. When you’re really honest about how broken the world actually is, you can’t help but be profoundly sad. Yet we’re not just called to be people of honesty, we’re called to be people of hope as well. When you begin to consider how magnificent God's love really is, when you begin to understand how powerful his grace is, and when you begin to realize that
God is right now exercising both his love and his grace so that this world would be fully and completely restored, you can't help but celebrate. This God who’s the ultimate definition of love and wisdom won’t leave us and the surrounding world alone until we and it are fully and completely restored to what we were meant to be in the beginning. So we should be the saddest and most celebrant community on earth. And we should be sad and celebratory at the very same time. We’re sad because we know how bad things actually are and we celebrate because we know that the help that Jesus offers us reaches to the deepest level of our need. Are you sad at the condition of your world and does your sadness dance with your celebration because you also know how great God's life-transforming grace actually is? When you take those honest looks at your world, have you remembered that God won’t quit or rest until he's made all things new? May both celebration and sadness dance in your heart to the rhythm of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and may you weep with joy and celebrate with sadness until He makes all things new once again! Reflection Questions • Where is sin currently leaving a legacy of damage on our culture? • Have you become numb towards that damage? • How has the brokenness of the world affected your daily life? • In the midst of that brokenness, are you tempted to lose hope? • How can you maintain hope in the midst of that damage? by Dr. Paul Tripp This resource is from Paul Tripp Ministries. For additional resources, visit PaulTripp.com. Used with permission.
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We all fall down. What we do next is crucial. Our children sometimes run around like wild animals. Before our sons were born, I began to teach our daughter a little phrase for when she would fall down or crash her little tricycle. "Eliza, what do we do when we fall down?" Eliza would answer, "We get back up." Maybe I copied it from Batman Begins. Who knows. I soon realized that just getting up was not the answer. I mean, if you get knocked down, it's not beneficial to get back up just to get knocked right back down. So, with that in mind, I changed the phase a bit. When one of our children falls down (it's not like they're clumsy all the time), I ask, "What happens when we fall down?" They'll now answer, "We get back up and do it better." This phrase even works when their tower made of blocks collapses. I recently bought a book because the title grabbed my attention. Has that ever happened to you before. I'm also a reader of other books by Wayne Mack. His book, Down, But Not Out: How to Get Up When Life Knocks You Down is a great and ironically hard hitting resource for all Christians.
The first few chapters threw me off when he began to address the sin of worry. Yes, sin. He very specifically detailed worry as useless and unnecessary, unbecoming, and involves unbelief. Mack wrote that worry is a common but serious problem with serious consequences. He encourages us to understand worry from God's perspective. Mack outlined how we can overcome the sin of worry. He even includes application sections at the end of the chapters. I recommend you buy, read, and apply this book. It will seem at times that you are being sliced open and exposed. However, in his explanation and application of God's word, that's exactly what we often need. If you desire change, even in the area of worry, I believe God will use this book in your life. by G.W. Fuller
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