I learned in my youth that summer cottages in Babylon are very easy to come by.\u00a0 And though my stay there was short lived, even a brief stint in “the midst of wickedness” can cause a lot of damage.<\/p>\n
So when I say I believe in Christ I mean it.\u00a0 But more importantly than believing in Christ is that I believe Christ.\u00a0 I believe Him when He says He has ransomed me.\u00a0 I believe Him when He says that I am free and that I am His.<\/p>\n
“I will never say, think or do anything to suggest that I am less than any other person.”\u00a0 I wrote from my college apartment. “To do so would be to deny Christ and that is something I simply cannot do.”<\/p>\n
“When something is over and done with, when it has been repented of as fully as it can be repented of, when life has moved on as it should and a lot of other wonderfully good things have happened since then, it is not right to go back and open some ancient wound that the Son of God Himself died to heal.”\u00a0 ~~Jeffrey R Holland<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Son of God died to heal me and I have never gone back to reopen the wound of my sins.\u00a0 But when a new wound was created through the sins of another I was forced to more deeply consider the question,<\/p>\n
Do I believe Christ?<\/p>\n
Do I believe Christ when He says He has ransomed all?\u00a0 Do I believe Him when He says that all are free and that all are His?<\/p>\n
Do I believe the Son of God died to heal even those who hurt me?<\/p>\n
Through the sins of another I was left to decide if I could open my heart to one who–escaping Babylon–came to me for refuge.\u00a0 Could I deny asylum to another, knowing it is only through the grace of my Lord that I have found shelter myself?<\/p>\n
To do so would be to deny Christ and that is something I simply cannot do.<\/p>\n
So to all those who give up their cottage in Babylon–and even those who don’t–come on over.\u00a0 There’s room for you here.<\/p>\n
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