During Jesus' life spent on earth, He shared so many profound lessons. I think about these lessons, and how they seem to go against the very essence of the culture we live in today. Like in Matthew 19:30 when he says, "The last shall be first and the first shall be last". Or, when Jesus taught about humility and shared that the way up is down, "to humble yourself."
Last week, Jay and I had opportunity to visit Worlds-of-Fun amusement park in Kansas City, MO. While spending the day there, we were spun, flipped, shaken, flopped, catapulted and turned upside down more times than we care to count. In relating this to a biblical point, God has a way of "turning things upside down" in our lives.
Through Jesus, we can experience this "upside down-ness". He turns "mourning into dancing", "beauty for ashes", "a spirit of despair into garments of praise". He gives "hope for hopelessness", "joy for sadness" and "peace for despair", just to name a few promises. Whatever pain, ailment, or hurt you have in your life, He is asking "Do you want to trade? I'll trade you!"
When I was a little girl, I had a blow-up clown toy that stood about 4-feet high. It was sort-of like a punching bag. You could hit this thing with all you had, and it would wobble and fall over, and then, stand right back up again, because it had weight on the bottom. This reminds me how the enemy tries to attack us. satan punches, jabs, and hits us with all he's got, but, because of "who we are in Christ" we rebound! If we've built our house on the "rock", satan cannot, and will not, win!!
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