Aren’t you glad you’ve already got the antidote, the cure for what ails this world? I know there’s a lot going on that’s wrong and sick, but there is one essential cure from God’s perspective. Jesus announced the very reason for His coming—that we should have life, His life, and have it to the full! (See John 10:10) He knew our impossible condition—spiritually lifeless, dead—and did something full-strength about it. He’s been proving this for a long time.

Through the use of laws and rules for behavior, God diagnosed for us and proved to us that our condition was terminal. We cannot get ourselves right. But in the fullness of time, He provided our cure—Jesus, the Son of man. He invited us to believe and accept Him as our representative with God, and thereby included us in His crucifixion, burial and resurrection—in other words, His life—and seated us in the heavens with little to do but marvel. Think what that will look like. There will be dancing! And in my case, that means I might actually look decent at it.

So think of yourself in Christ, full of life. There, in Him, you cannot judge yourself according to your color; there is only His. In Christ, you cannot judge yourself by your ability, you cannot judge yourself by your faithfulness, your righteousness, your practice or your history; there is only His. And that’s why and where it’s all perfect—and you are too.

The new humanity that Jesus created in Himself is the end of sinful and lifeless, separate and self-centered humanity in favor of a glorified, Jesus-centered, new creation, full of life, his life. (See Ephesians 2:11-22)

That’s what we celebrate; God’s full-strength cure.

See you later.