Reframe: From The God We've Made…To God With UsSýnishorn
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Restarting Everything
Would it shock you to find out you inspired God? What kind of weight would this idea bring to your life? You inspire God. That would shift a paradigm or two, wouldn’t it? It would probably make you think a little longer about living recklessly or, for that matter, not living at all.
If the definition of inspiration is something “that makes someone want to do or create something,” then we must inspire God because life is still being created and given as a gift—seven beautiful screaming new lives per second, to be exact. But to inspire is more than that. To inspire also means “the action or power of moving the intellect or emotions.” The entire narrative of the Bible reveals a God who is eager and willing to be with us.
In the Old Testament, God was constantly moved to act and respond. The Scriptures are full of stories in which He describes the way our actions affect Him. And then, in the most profound action the world has ever seen, God came in person. Jesus came. If people don’t inspire God, then why would He come for us? Why would He care? Why would He want to be with us?
We inspire God. This final reframe should touch just about everything in our lives, leaving them humbled and tingling with possibility. As I’ve said so many times before, this really is all about you, and all about what you do next.
My friend, you were created and fashioned after God’s image. Do you understand how profoundly you matter? Do you understand how profoundly that matters? If God’s image is embedded in you at your spiritual core and God gave you the breath of life (Genesis 2:7), then He is more deeply invested in you than every single one of the cells that give you form and shape. You cannot escape God. And He will not abandon you.
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Taken from his best-selling book “Reframe,” Brian Hardin unpacks the often-overlooked core of the Gospel—a relationship with God. For many, a “personal relationship with Jesus” is nothing more than the gift we are given at the doorway of faith. We have it, but we don’t know what to do with it. Reframe helps us understand what this relationship is NOT so that we can find the breathtaking beauty of what it could be.
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