God and the Repurposed Man

We live in a throw-away world.

Technology and competition are the culprits, but there’s actually an economic upside: Disposable products usually don’t cost as much—notwithstanding the consequence of inflation.

Unfortunately though, the value of a life also seems to have taken on the same pattern of unrecoverable depreciation. Today, if a man stumbles and succumbs to the tactics of the Great Deceiver, the unbiblical mind is quick to write him off. Repentance is often not a consideration.

But Jesus Christ’s faithful disciple sees God’s purpose for men from a very different perspective.

Our Lord created human life with the intention of salvaging it, not discarding it.

In his letter to to the saints who [were] in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus, the apostle Paul explained, not just how, but also why God desires to reveal His marvelous work [that’s us] to the rest of His great unseen realm:

“To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach good news to the Gentiles—[that is, the] unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light [to all men] what [is] the plan of the mystery which has been concealed [throughout] the ages in God, who created all things, in order that now, the many facets of God’s wisdom might now be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms through [the lives of Christ’s] assembly.” [Eph. 3:8-10] [my emphasis]

A man’s regenerate life is a miracle for him to validate in this age for sure.

God saves him from the slave market of sin that he might experience life in its eternal form. But that quality of life could hardly be said to exist if he couldn’t demonstrate the Lord’s power and glory for the rest of Creation to see in the process.

God digs the broken man out of the dumpster and makes him new again. He shatters personal wealth, then astonishes the poor man by making him rich! He humbles the proud man then makes him a valiant warrior in His service!

He creates new lives that men never knew could exist!

“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.” [Phil. 3:7]