29 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. – Jeremiah 29:13
What gets all of our heart? Perhaps in the fractured world we live – full of distractions – nothing truly does. We have made multi-tasking a celebrated trait. Our lives are entangled with roles and responsibilities, making it difficult for anything to receive our full devotion. Driven by a need to accomplish (checking off those pesky “to-do” lists) or held back by guilt (“I truly need to do this”), we end up burning out in unmanageable deficit.
For many, our sin keeps us from a wholehearted life. We think we could never measure up to some imaginary level we need to be in order to commune with the Eternal. We erect unscalable walls and obstacles which keep us from giving our heart away. So we dream of taking a step towards our Creator, but resign ourselves to a moderate spiritual life marred with guilt. Yet, this guilt is not from God. If anything, it should be the fuel to compel us toward the limits of self. Why hide behind such faults?
Yet, if there is one relationship where we are free to celebrate our faults and brokenness, it is with our God. In the backwards economy of Jesus, our sin clears a way to Him. Our saving grace is found in our inability to save ourselves. The house that deserves cleaning is the one which is a disaster. Such are our souls. Our sin surprises everyone but Christ, who came to earth with the purpose to die as a substitute for it. And this death is large enough to cover that which we hide from the rest of the world. His grace is already in the shadows of our shame. With sobering reality, our sin is only hidden to ourselves. Perhaps it is only by facing our brokenheartedness with courage and humility that we can ever give the whole of our being.
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