Rehabilitation
or re-creation
Many
people want rehabilitation, that is, they want their lives to be returned to
their former level of functioning. Knowing there are some things out of order
in their lifestyles or their bodies, they join a self-help improvement group or
go to a physical therapist. Many people treat their spiritual lives as programs
in rehabilitation. The message of Christmas is that the Christ child did not
come into the world to rehabilitate humanity; he came to re-create us, to make
us new. Many people treat their faith as a self-improvement program: nothing
could be further from the truth. An encounter with Jesus leads to the birth of
a new power in us. This new power produces in us a new life which cannot be
accomplished by human efforts of moral goodness or moral aspirations. The very
rightness of God is born in us and wants to be released in us as we give our
wills to the Will. – Ron Friesen
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