True Repentance That Is Not About Prosperity, but Being Born Again as a New Creation

 

“Are you a reed shaken by the wind?”


This was the question Jesus asked when John the Baptist, imprisoned and pressed by his own limitations, found his certainty that Jesus was the Christ beginning to waver.


Jesus said that if one doubts that the God who knows where the wind comes from and where it goes—the Creator who formed heaven and earth with His finger—has come to dwell among us as the Christ, even the greatest man born of woman would be smaller than the least in the kingdom of God.


Cynical men in power, who schemed to protect their privileges, killed John the Baptist because he pursued reform and righteousness.


Even today, there exist powerful religious groups that reject the truth that Jesus is the Christ, capturing us with philosophy and empty deceit and preventing us from following Christ.


The only way to reform religion in this age filled with chaos, emptiness, and darkness is not through John the Baptist’s sense of justice nor through the law, but only through Christ who gives us power.


For the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.


From Abraham’s faith, Moses’ obedience, and David’s praise, the redemptive history of the covenant that spans generations can be fully carried forward only through those who live with calling, mission, and divine purpose.


Examine yourself as a child of God who has changed the master, as an heir of the kingdom of God who carries on the covenant lineage.


Ask yourself:

“Am I responding sensitively to the living Word of God today?”


“When problems arise, am I staking everything on prayer alone?”


“Relying on the hand of the Creator God and the power of the Holy Spirit, am I engaging in spiritual warfare—casting out evil spirits—reforming my chronic cynicism and my old nature that wavers like a reed?”


When you remain in today’s Word, today’s prayer, and today’s evangelism proclaiming Christ to yourself, the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet, and you will be filled with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!

(Luke 7:24–35; Genesis 1:2; Philippians 4:13; Colossians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Hebrews 11:39–40; Luke 11:20; Romans 16:20)

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