New Clothes—New Life

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What does it mean to be mortal? How does our mortality resonate with us?

Our lives this side of eternity are temporary and fragile. We all have a countdown clock on our limited time this side of eternity.

This fragility does not sit well with us and is not natural for us. We long for more. We long for permanence. We long for life everlasting.

We were made for eternity. We were made for more than we can experience in this broken world. We are made to live and to transcend our groaning, our griefs, our sorrows, and our burdens of this life. God desires to clothe us in immortality and to consume us by his life.

Paul wrote about this to the Church in Corinth, saying, “For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.” (2 Corinthians 5:4-5, ESV).

God desires that we live and has given us his Spirit as a guarantee of the life that we have waiting for us. God has prepared us for life.

May we take courage in the face of our fragility, and in the temporal nature of our clothing of mortality, recognizing that God has eternal life and immortality prepared for us—an incorruptible garment of everlasting and abundant life in him.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For The Sixth Sunday of Easter: Rogation: “O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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