Redemption

What is it to redeem? Is redemption retroactive or current? Would redemption make it seem as if something never happened or is it the fulfillment of what was once lost? Redemption fills in the gaps of our hearts but does it change the fact there was once a hole? What was once lost will remain lost even when found. Death can be fulfilled with life. If a man dies and is resurrected will he not forever be a man once dead who is now alive and not a man who has never known death? Lazarus was resurrected yet he will forever be a man who died and lived not a man who merely lived. His resurrection redeems his death but can not or will not erase his death. Redemption heals what was broken yet no matter how strong the healing will never change the history of one being broken. If a broken bone heals ten times stronger it does not change the fact the bone was at once broken. Christ blood’s does not merely redeem it invites one to embrace a quickened death and to be remade not redeemed. Reborn as a Son or Daughter of God grafted into the vine of the Almighty. His blood yes redeemed but its greater work is in not remaking which is taking from old and making new but in its ability to invite us by our choice to be entirely new creations. We are given the honor of partnering our choice alongside His. God’s greatest work was not the redemption of man but the entirely new creation of one who dies alongside the lamb to be made anew. We have been made anew not from old material but from entirely new material never before seen. We must not settle for mere redemption but set our sights on the promise of being the unblemished Bride of Christ. Unblemished as to have never known blemish. This is Gospel and truly truly truly Good News.