Left to themselves all things wind down.
Over the past week I've been dealing with rusty pipes, insects in wood--and woodpeckers who consider them as their next meal, concerns about declining stock values, and a business agreement that was missing important details. You have probably had the experience of putting a letter in a pile, or an email in a digital file, intending to answer it later. There it remained untouched, until sometime later when it no longer had any relevance. We not only live in a fallen world, in a sense everything around us is still falling. Stopping, slowing, or reversing that deterioration always takes work.
The ultimate force in that curse opposition emanates from the cross where Jesus died. From there and the empty tomb flow forgiveness to deal with sins destruction, reconciliation to counter the endemic alienation that began with Adam and Eve hiding in the garden, and purpose that comes to replace the lostness that infected us all at the fall.
As soon as I finish this I'm heading to the hardware store for a couple of new pieces of pipe. That rusty plumbing will not suddenly grow solid again. Take a moment and consider what is in your heart. If you sense there the same deterioration that is going on all around us, I encourage you to get to know Jesus Christ better. He has accomplished what is needed to reverse the trend.
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