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A God of Restoration

Romans 8:11 

“And if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his spirit who lives in you” 

Recently I have been hearing a lot of stories on spiritual dryness. It seems we are all experience some form of distance from God: whether it’s not feeling his presence, maybe not having the motivation to pray or read the bible as much, it all links to one word: death. I know it may sound dramatic, but when I say ‘death’, I don’t mean a physical death, I’m talking about a spiritual one. Opening our viewpoint on death allows us to see that ‘death’ is much more than the shutting down of the body, it’s something that we see or experience more in our day-to-day lives, we just haven’t paid much attention to it.  

One thing about me is that I like definitions: it helps me understand and comprehend things more. When thinking about the idea of restoration, the trusted Google gives the definition, “the action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition”. So, it’s clear that restoration is linked to a return back to it’s former state. Under God, he doesn’t just return things back to it’s former state, he multiplies it tenfold simultaneously.  

It’s clear that throughout the Bible, God is a God of restoration. The clearest evidence of that is through restoring his own body back to life. Though Christ’s resurrection was 2,000 odd years ago, it still continues now. 

As the verse states, if that same spirit that raised Christ from the death lives in us, then we too share in the resurrection: not by our own metrics but by the grace and love of God. That also means that anything ‘dead’ in our lives: whether it is a mental death, educational death, relational death, the same God that brought his own body back to life, how much more for you? 

God has power over death and so call on the God of restoration to restore anything that is dead in your life.  

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