Redemption

Redemption

When suffering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, God stoops to pick up the pieces. But he doesn’t put them back together as a restoration project . . . he sifts through the rubble and selects some of the shards as raw material for another project—a mosaic that tells the story of redemption.

Ken Gire

I specialize in freeing people from bondage. You often think back to easier, less stressful times in your life and wish for a return to better days. But I want you to understand the meaning of redemption. It always involves going from something to something else. I freed you from the bondage of the law to give you freedom—a new life. The precious blood of Christ obtained your release from sin.

As you walk on the path I’ve established for your future, you will not be returning to the past. I am taking the hurts, the hard-fought battles, the wounds, and the kernels of your earlier faith, and I’m forming them into something brand new—a maturing faith that will be a megaphone to the world, proclaiming that I am the God of restoration and resurrection. Your testimony will be an example that will point others to Me—and help them find their own stories of redemption.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us.

Ephesians 1:7-8, NIV