A Brand-New Ending

For those of you who follow and/or forward my weekly blog, thank you for your patience as I intentionally took the month of January off.

One of the axioms of Cherry Street is; 'Rock bottom is a firm foundation from which to build'. Based on this, we who serve in this part of the river of the human condition have a rather developed belief system which allows us to have high comfortability creating and being in an environment of 'rock-bottom crashers' who are encouraged to get on with it .... and crash.

David, in Psalm 139 verse 8 wrote; 'If I go up to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in hell, you are there.'

Now listen, many who follow God these days do not know - in the Biblical sense of knowing - what David is talking about here, nor have you embraced God's complete comfortability with us as He watches and waits for us at rock bottom.

In fact, many of us who have potential 'rock-bottom crashers' in our lives are trying to slow their rate of speed as we witness them spiraling out of control, while others of us try to cushion what we know is going to be a hard landing ... why?

God is there - are we?

Scottish Theologian Carl Bard once said; 'Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.'

Frankly, its hard to start something new if you're still holding onto something old. It's as though we want for others what we know is not even possible for ourselves. Life has amply taught you by now that rock bottom, though harsh, was your salvation. It was there that you found God - I mean really found Him. You found Him waiting to bind the wound of your fall and solve the reason for your decline.

Here's today's question; Are you willing to risk standing where God is standing?

To stand at rock bottom is to stand at a brand-new ending. The Apostle Paul wrote in II Corinthians 5:17; 'Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.

We now live in a world who largely wants the new start without having a new ending. If you are to be an effective voice of rescue in 2010, learn the lesson of 'a brand-new ending'. Develop your relationship to God in such a way that those around you will know, really know Him, as the One who waits like no other at rock bottom.

As you do, you'll also be known for the same quality.

Dan