Day 2838 of the 7 day Bible verse challenge.
Luke 17:32 NIV Stuck. Frozen. Cemented in this eternal middle ground where all we have is a reminder of a doomed past we’re not going back to and the dream of a hopeful future that we’ll sadly never experience. You see, that’s what we get by wasting all this time worrying about all these feelings of unworthiness. We get stuck in the middle. We find ourselves being led to the hopeful realization of a salvation we don’t deserve, but still somehow unwilling or unable to let go of the disaster that we’ve created behind us. It’s like we have this innate sense of responsibility to clean up the mess we’ve made of our life so far. We feel this responsibility to maybe fix it somehow so that we feel better about the gift we’ve been given through the cross. I guess we don’t want to feel humbled by God giving us a gift that our old lives clearly don’t deserve. Or maybe we don’t want to feel obligated to feel grateful. Or maybe we still just don’t understand how all those mistakes we’ve made can tr...