Hello Everyone
Cancelled. We live in a post-Christian culture that has progressively sought to de-throne and remove God whilst constructing a new kingdom where humans elevate themselves as monarchs of the earth. The world is marching to a different drum as it seeks to cancel God and marginalise Christianity. We even have a “cancel culture” that once danced on the edges of society but now rides confidently on the back of these anti-God warlords. So much is being cancelled. Things we hold dear and things that really count are being cancelled. The foundations of God as the pillars of our society are being cancelled. Our history and story as a Christian Nation are sitting under the judgement arm of the appointed leaders in our Nation who are proposing a rescript of the narrative of our Christian heritage, removing it from school curriculums. Freedom of religion is currently under the gavel of cancellation, where the powers to be assume the right to determine the way humans thrive. The more the world seeks to cancel life as God designed it the greater capacity there is for the hungry hounds of destruction and devastation to ferociously maul and devour the capacity for humans to flourish. God never intended life to be on the leash of meaninglessness with a studded collar squeezing the breath out of us as the chain gets tighter.
Whilst the cancel culture appears to be a movement that is gaining momentum, the reality is it is not new to God. It really all began with Adam and Eve who tried to cancel God’s right to be God in their world. God has been dealing with the idea of humans on a cancellation mission since then. Isn’t it an enigma that humans in their finiteness have tried to cancel God and ultimately have no capacity to do so? Isn’t it equally an enigma that God who does have the capacity to cancel life, doesn’t? What a gracious, all-powerful, loving, good God to permit the arrogance of any human who believes God can be cancelled and attempts to do so. God can never be cancelled. That is one huge relief that breathes hope into the lungs of our souls. God’s throne is established forever and can never be cancelled. His power and authority are supreme and can never be cancelled. His light can never be extinguished or cancelled. His voice can never be silenced or cancelled. His truth can never be rewritten or cancelled. Nothing can or ever will cancel God. Psalm 93:1-2.
God is ahead of our times because He also cancels things but what He cancels becomes a gift to His repentant children and opens the door to a renewed life. Colossians 2:14. So, what things are cancelled by God? God cancels our sin, and we are no longer held accountable for our disobedience. Our debts have been cancelled and we don’t pay what we owe, thanks to Jesus who has paid this on our behalf. Our status as rebellious sons and daughters has been cancelled and we are restored to the status of heirs. Our failures are cancelled and remembered no more–sent as far as the east is to the west. God has cancelled the darkness of our rebellion and places us in the light of Jesus. The ruins we once stood in are cancelled as God raises us and calls us to Himself. Our eternal destination of separation from God has been cancelled and He creates a seat for us at his heavenly table. Whatever God cancels is restorative rather than ravaging. Why would anyone want to cancel a God who loves us this much?
So, friends, get what God cancels and God restores on today.
Best days to come.
Wen