Epic Flow

How dread are thine eternal years, O everlasting Lord!
By prostrate spirits day and night incessantly adored!
How beautiful, how beautiful the sight of thee must be,
Thine endless wisdom, boundless power, and awful purity!
~Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.  For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God.
~ paul, The Least of The Apostles, near the epicenter of the Gospel in Romans 6

You’re dead ya know.

And this is some of the best news you have ever been given.

We (you and i) were the foulest sort.  We were awful, dreadful and painfully self-sufficient, but radically short of fully human.

And we know it.

And one day this One pours Himself into our Lives.  As the dam of our damned heart breaks down, His dread blood pours through the breech and begins a work both at once impossible and impossibly beautiful.

The fetid pools of our lives are washed away.  And though places for water remain in our lives, the way they are filled is completely different.  The Source of the inflow has no throttle and no lack of supply.  And we, to our delight, find that we can allow this same Water to flow out of us with no constraint – for we somehow know we will never run dry again.

And in the strangest of mysteries, we realize that we are both completely dead, and now completely, abundantly, and profoundly Alive.  The Life Blood of the One having done the bleeding works a real miracle in us – for we surely needed one.

We come up out of this flood gasping for the new air of the new Life we have been given.  And as we learn to breath anew, we find that it is He who is are very breath.  We no longer are given some medium to breathe – for now it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.

And in but a moment, the epic flow of this change begins to make itself known in our new minds.  We are now real.  We are now fully human.  We are Living as Designed.  We have a renewed spirit and we are completely united with the only Power able to actually run an actual human being.

And suddenly, we see it.

This was always supposed to happen to us.  And He made it possible.  He did the impossible, so that we could simply become real and be His friend.  Forever.

Oh my.

Yeah.

We have no idea, yet, where this flow is going.  But every fibre of the new man we are knows, really knows that this is going in a very good direction.