Understanding Our Union

We all aspire to be something–someone special. Yet when we take an honest inventory, we realize that we just can’t seem to get there. 

For me, I’m never satisfied with my level of understanding, physical fitness, intelligence, and depth of relationships. There’s just so much in life where I feel like a failure. 

For example, in my relationship with Jesus, I feel like I’m constantly tripped up by the same sins. I want to be better. In holiness, I want to become more of who I was designed to be. 

And in all of my effort to turn what I aspire to be to what I actually am, I find that I can lose my focus on my first true love, on Jesus and what he’s done for me. 

You see, there’s a secret to our faith. There’s a maxim to our relationship with the Lord. The deeper we ponder it, the more we seek to understand, the more he lifts us out of our own personal pit of sin. 

Oh, I’ve tried it the other way, by focusing on the sin. But it will just drag you back down like a whirlpool in the Delaware. 

But there is a way out! There is a key. Let’s find it.