One evening as I was preparing supper in the kitchen, my oldest daughter joined me and began washing the dishes she used to bake something earlier. After just a bit, she stood there and began to shake her leg. Puzzled, I looked at her and wondered what was going on. In her efforts to reach and clean and spray all the dishes, her leg had fallen asleep. As she danced around trying to return the blood flow to her limb she exclaimed, “Now that it’s coming back to life again it hurts!"
All at once it struck me. “Now that it’s coming back to LIFE again it HURTS!”
Just as the blood supply is cut off from the leg when it falls asleep, sometimes we too have fallen asleep in the midst of this world. At times, God lovingly cuts us off from the worldly life, and sometimes it can happen so gently that we barely even take notice. That is until we start to come back to life, to be revived in a life saved by Jesus.
As we step into this new life and begin to move and flex, or dance around, often there’s pain. Sometimes, it's just a small tingle like when our limbs first begin to wake and other times an excruciating bolt as we come face to face with a reality we had once successfully buried deep in our conscious. Pain may come as we are forced to let go and reconcile the past, or face the selfishness of our inner selves.
Although, we have been made new creatures in Him our sin nature remains in us, an ever-present battle in this world between our flesh and our spirit.
But, as the pain resides and the blood flow restored, strength is returned to us. This time however, it is no longer our own strength that pushes us forward but His strength in us.
Galatians 5:17, John 3:5-6, Romans 10:9-10
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