The Message
What's your greatest need? If you're in the desert and dying of thirst, you need water. A salesman selling bow ties isn't going to interest you. If you're stranded on the side of the road in an avalanche, you need heat. Someone who calls and offers to sell you a timeshare won't be seen as useful.
If you're facing death and have a breached relationship with God, then you are in desperate need of a solution for that. This is the condition we're all in. We often live in denial, pretending that our youth or our health will last forever. We isolate ourselves from death or from any thoughts of our mortality. But Jesus reminds us that we are in desperate need of a solution to our greatest problem.
The other half of the equation is that we cannot solve this problem on our own. God has prepared a solution and offers it to us freely. Will you accept? Will you live in light of this solution, even if it costs you something in the short term?
To live in denial of such a problem, to always live for the now without any thought of the future, is one half of the great reversal. The other half is to live with a heart set on God's Kingdom, investing in an eternal future and accepting that the only way forward, today and forever, is to depend on the grace of God and to die to the self daily.
Which path will you choose? How will you live?
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