Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Cor 5:17

Inertia |ɪˈnəːʃə| noun [mass noun] 1 a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged:

Sometimes the culture, circumstances and friendships we are surrounded by create an inertia in our lives. A swirling circle that slowly sucks us into its heart like a black hole. We are unable, powerless, incapable of change and unaware of the need for change, or that there is another way.

• Drew,… “Growing up on the Gold Coast surfing, everyone, almost everyone, was into drugs. It was just a part of my growing up. It seemed normal. It’s such a shame, it’s so sad, that was the way it was. I almost didn’t have another option.”

This is the beauty of the good news of Jesus. You see whilst we are lost and incapable of change He is and has already acted on our behalf. Rom 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This is the story that should be always on our lips, the lifeblood that beats in our veins should be Jesus, and his great love for us.

• Drew, … “I always knew about Christian Surfers but the first time I was interested in it was just with Angie. She took me along and that was really cool, it felt like I was going to go somewhere. I never didn’t believe, but I just kind of pushed it to the side, I was one of those guys who… I just don’t want to think about it cause I know it might be true. I was not ready to tell people that this is what I kind of believe and then all the stuff that came with that… I was scared of all that really.”

Jesus didn’t die to save us from our circumstances, he saves us from our sin, and the guilt and shame associated with it. He doesn’t change our circumstance, he changes US. 1 Pet 2: 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellences of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

He calls us out of the darkness of the inertia of sin; into the momentum of his glorious light. We become new, born again, as children of God. To realize this change we must first recognize the hopeless, desperate, darkness of our sinful situation.

• Drew, … “So coming along I felt like I was at the point where I was just going to keep going down and down and down… more wasteful, just wasting my life. I was just so blessed to have Angie wanting to head in that (Gods) direction and sort of pulling me in that direction”.

1 Pet 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. We are moved, swept up into Christ into an inheritance that will not fade or change. Changed from hopeless to hopeful.

• Drew,… “Happiness for me now is just knowing that I’m free from all my old ways. I can have a bad day now, everything can be just going wrong, but as long as I’m not how I used to be, with all that stuff going on… I’m just happy.”
• Drew, … “I feel like I could have achieved so much more, if I only knew the truth, that it’s so bad and so wasteful… to come through it, it’s so good to look back and say I’m not turning back to that.”

Jn 6: 67-68: Jesus said to the Twelve, Do you want to go away as well? Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go?

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Written by Andrew Carruthers - Narrow Path Media

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