Explosions can be destructive or constructive.
We can explode ordnance by triggering the detonation cord. The ordnance goes boom, and there’s not much left to pick up or sort through.
However, an explosion doesn’t always decimate whatever it’s attached to. Sometimes it leaves us with more than we started with.
An idea can explode into a discussion, a design, and a product. If it’s done well, it can continue its explosion into a massive windfall in economic return.
Dollars invested in the stock market can explode into stupendous returns … another economic benefit.
A new thing on YouTube is revealing car design though the decades with a series of CGI explosions. A car from the Twenties explodes and comes together again as the Thirties’ version. That one explodes and reforms as the car looked in the Forties, then again in the Fifties and so on, with each one looking more modern and sleeker than before.
Is it possible for US to explode and come back as something better than before?
Ephesians 4:22-24 (NIV) gives us the Biblical version of the YouTube exploding car reveal:
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Here’s how it works for the Christian:
1. We are in our original format, our original design, one corrupted by deceitful desires.
2. God redesigns us to be new in the attitude of our minds.
3. God explodes the old self—the original us—and it flies off to be seen no more.
4. We are revealed in our updated self, like God, righteous and holy before him, new and better than before.
Explosions … are you allowing the detonation cord to go boom and leave you so battered there’s not much left to pick through?
Or are you exploding in God, still standing, now righteous and holy before him?
Let’s make the explosions in our life count for God. Let’s put off the old self and become more like him.
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