Presented to TSA Alberni Valley Men's Breakfast, 26 October 2024, by Major Michael Ramsay
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
We went to see Frankenstein the Ballet last night. Does anyone knows that story? The beginning is like the book. Dr. Frankenstein makes a creation out of the parts of corpses who had had terrible things happen in their lives - and then he brings life to the new creation and it becomes whole - with a whole new lease on life. A new chance to live. No matter all the awful stuff that had happened before.
Now, the book actually ends poorly after that - but the ballet does not. The ballet includes a story of Giselle. This bride, who herself suffered a horrible fate, learned forgiveness and is resurrected. She meets Fromstein's creation, they fall in love - and start off again, this time living a transformed life.
Revelation 21:3b-4: God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
No matter what we have done in this life. No matter if we mess up after God has already helped us and transformed us once or a million times; no matter what we have gone through, God can still transform us so that we can get through everything - looking forward to that day when indeed there will finally be no more pain and no more suffering
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