Destination Sickness

How can we be fully satisfied? People are suffering from destination sickness. What is destination sickness? It is discontent and dissatisfaction no matter how hard we try to live up to meet the challenges of lives. What is the cause? Why are humans so unrest and discontent despite of relentless tries generations after generations? Why do so many people commit suicide? It is out of deep-seated nature in human beings. We humans are threefold beings, having body, soul, and spirit. Since the fall of human race by Adam, humans lost access to the realm of spirit. The human spirit is where the Holy Spirit of God resides. We were dead in sins and transgressions (Ephesians 2:1). So, no matter how hard we try to be satisfied physically and mentally, there is no true satisfaction until we access to the spirit where we can meet the Lord God who is all.

The apt symbol for this was beautifully illustrated by the Tabernacle built in the wilderness by Moses. It has three parts, having outer courts, holy place and the holy of holies. The holy of holies remained inaccessible except the Day of Atonement by the high priest once a year and not without blood. The holy of holies is the apt symbol for human spirit. So, the worshipers who brought the offerings to God could only access the outer courts and only touched and cleansed outside only. That is why people are restless and agitated. It is so commonplace regard of class, race, rich or poor, blue or white, young or old, educated or illiterate. All humans cannot escape from the terrible and brutal fact of restlessness and uneasiness.

What a tragedy! Here comes the good news of Jesus Christ the Lord who entered into the holy of holies by means of death, shedding blood on the cross in Calvary. When the Lord Christ Jesus gave up His life unto the Father in our place, the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom (Mark 15:38). That curtain stood invincibly until Jesus Christ the High Priest entered into the holy of holies through death with blood. Now anyone who put complete trust in the work of Christ Jesus the Lord can enter into the holy of holies. Now the forbidden access to our human spirit has loosed by the death of the Son of Man. It is possible for us to enter into the holy of holies for the death of Christ Jesus was the substitutionary death in our place.

"For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" (Galatians 2:19-21 NKJV) God poured His righteous wrath upon the begotten Son of Man in the Calvary. “He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV)

It is impossible for us to enter into the holy of holies without death with blood. So, the cross of Jesus Christ our Lord stands forever. Whosoever wants to enter into the holy of holies and drink the Spirit out of rivers of living water must first die by relating himself to the Lord Jesus Christ who died and rose again from the dead in our place. That is the very reason our Lord Jesus Christ told his disciples, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” (Mark 34-35 NKJV)

The good news of Jesus Christ has now been delivered to all people on earth. It is not something for us in the future or in heaven after this life. That is one of the most distorted and twisted misunderstandings among the believers’ circle. The good news of our Lord Jesus Christ is available now for anyone who believes in Him. Jesus Christ is with us in our places where we are living or working just as He was with the disciples during the earthly ministry. He indwells within us by means of the Spirit. Hebrews assures that the Holy Spirit whom God sent will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). That is the most powerful assurance and promise for all the believers in Jesus Christ the Lord. Jesus Christ promised to His disciples with the words of truth, “Lo, I am with you, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)

No matter where we are and what kind of circumstances we face, Jesus Christ is in us and with us for sure. So, we do not lose heart by any reason. Since He has risen and seated at the right hand of God, we are no longer hungry or thirsty for trying to access the throne of God. It is instantly available by faith as our Lord Jesus Christ invites us to come and drink the Spirit of power out of rivers of living water. “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:37-38 NKJV) The sanctuary we run for is within our human spirit, the holy of holies, where Jesus Christ lives forever by means of the Spirit. Therefore, we’re living His life, the most exciting and powerful life, much more powerful than the hydrogen bomb. It is eternal life.

“Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life. For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of His resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that sin’s dominion over the body may be abolished, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, since a person who has died is freed from sin’s claims. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him. For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God. So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 6:3-11 NKJV)