Episode Transcript
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[00:00:10] Well, hey, friends, welcome to Thursday's edition of the weekday podcast. We're glad you're here today. Our hope is that these couple of minutes every single day would offer encouragement to you. Well, today's anchor scripture is Luke 24, 6, and 7, where it's told to the women that showed up looking for Jesus, he is not here, but he has risen. Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee, saying, the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified. And the third day rise again. Think about those seven words. He is not here. He is risen. That's the hinge of all of human history, right in those seven words. I think sometimes we've heard those words so many times that they've lost some of the weight. So I want to put some weight back on them today. Three days before those women walked to the tomb, Jesus was arrested. He was beaten. He was nailed to the cross. He actually physically died. Not as a symbol, not as a spiritual metaphor. He literally died. And here's the part that should stop us every time we hear it. He didn't have to. Like, he did not have to die, but he chose it. He walked into it with his eyes wide open, knowing exactly what it would cost because you were worth that cost to him. The cross is where God looked at everything broken in your life. Every pattern, every regret, everything that you carry. And he absorbed it so it wouldn't have to stay on you. Think about what it means to restore something versus replace it. Now, I'm not a car guy. If it starts and the AC works, I'm happy. But even I understand what it means when somebody finds a rusted out 1969 Camaro that's been sitting in a barn for 30 years. Panels caved in, engine seized, and instead of scrapping it, they spend months restoring it, not replacing it with something new, bringing back the original because they could see past what it had become to what it was designed to be. And that's what God did. God didn't look at you, the dents and the damages and the years, and say, not worth it. Instead, he looked at you and he saw that you were designed to be. And the resurrection is his announcement that the design hasn't been abandoned. It's been restored at the cost of everything. So today, I want to encourage you to sit with this. He didn't scrap you. He's restoring you. What part of your life feels the most beyond repair for you right now? And I want to encourage you to bring it to the one who specializes in restoration. He didn't scrap the design, he restored it. Have a great day. We'll see you back here soon.
