Tough Lesson

What is the most difficult lesson for humans to learn in life? I believe it is to learn how they are intended to be functioning from the beginning. Most people think that if they do their best with the best knowledge and wisdom which they think best then everything would be okay. The standard way of living in the world misleads people including many Christians to believe that they have what it takes for life. That’s not true. It never was and never will be. No human has what it takes. No matter how they try hard religiously and morally to be kept clean from guilt and condemnation, they cannot escape from them. All the best they could get with the hard attempt with full devotion and commitment is to be trapped into putting on the veil of pretension or delusion. It’s so deceitful that they think they can keep clean themselves. This kind of life is not what God has intended us to live. We’re not designed to live such an untruthful life. Paul calls it a wasted life which will be burnt by fire. “If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:15 NKJV)

What is then the true life? The authentic life comes only when we deny the standard way of living in the world that we have what it takes and accept that we need the Mediator and Redeemer all the time of our lives in this age and ages to come. That’s the time we enter into the true life, Jesus Christ the Lord. It’s called conversion or regeneration. A whole new life has begun at the moment of opening our hearts to accept the Redeemer. That marvelous life has blossomed through faith in the Son Jesus Christ. It cannot come through any other way but by Jesus Christ. This is true not only at the conversion moment but also every time and everywhere all throughout this sojourner’s lives on earth and in heaven. “And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV)

That’s the new way of living which is given from heaven above through the Redeemer Lord to those who have learned a fact that we need the Redeemer and Mediator always. It’s called a new covenant life. “Everything is coming from God, nothing coming from me.” Paul says about this secret of life in his letter to the Corinthians. “And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” (2 Corinthians 3:4-6 NKJV)