For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us - by me and Silvanus and Timothy - was not “Yes” and “No,” but it has always been “Yes” in him. For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him… (2 Corinthians 1:19, 20)
God asked man to love him above all else. Man said no. That no reverberated through time into every crevice of life.
Is nature healthy? No. Will you live forever? No. Are you whole without God? No.
No is the most devastating word in any language. It condemns us to suffer for eternity.
Jesus came so that everyone living in the world might have a second chance at God’s question. “Through my Son will you love me above all else?”
When we say yes, anything a purified imagination dreams is granted with a laughing, almighty yes. God, do you love me? Yes. Do you forgive me? Yes. Are you with me? Yes.
Say yes to God through Christ, and he will say yes to you through eternity. It sounds easy, but this world slams noes into our face with such frequency that we lose hope in the word yes. Rejection is a no. Loss of health and income are more noes. The noes pile up until it’s difficult to see a yes right in front of us.
God’s yes resounds, it knocks down our heap of noes. But He doesn’t merely remove our noes, he converts them into yeses. As we hand each no to him, trusting in his recompense, he redeems them to yeses of eternal reward. Such is his mighty power over every no.
In Christ, life is yes. Yes, yes, and forever yes.
Prayer: Father in heaven, I rest in your yes.