{"id":5148,"date":"2012-04-08T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2012-04-08T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T19:37:26","slug":"jesus-nothing-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"Jesus + Nothing = Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=5149\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5149\" title=\"wooden-cross-cindy-wright\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wooden-cross-cindy-wright.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wooden-cross-cindy-wright.jpg 641w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wooden-cross-cindy-wright-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this Easter Sunday, I am reminded of the words of Tullian Tchividjian in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jesus-Nothing-Everything-Tullian-Tchividjian\/dp\/1433507781\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus + Nothing = Everything<\/a> as he describes the gospel&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rediscovering the gospel enabled me to see that:<br \/>\nBecause Jesus was strong for me, I was free to be weak;<br \/>\nBecause Jesus won for me, I was free to lose;<br \/>\nBecause Jesus was someone, I was free to be no one;<br \/>\nBecause Jesus was extraordinary, I was free to be ordinary;<br \/>\nBecause Jesus succeeded for me, I was free to fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The <em>everything<\/em> we crave is so vast, so comprehensive, so deep, so high, that it extends even this far\u2014to God himself.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever deficiency lies at the deepest root of our restlessness\u2014no matter how big or small, whether it\u2019s life-gripping or comparatively trivial\u2014the missing component is something very specific that Christ <em>has already secured for restless sinners like you and me.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Reigning eternally, Jesus alone possesses the eternal resources we need to satisfy our eternal yearnings.\u00a0 That\u2019s why looking to anything or anyone smaller than Jesus to save us is an exercise in futility.<\/li>\n<li>The gospel frees us from this pressure to perform, this slavish demand to \u201cbecome.\u201d\u00a0 The gospel liberatingly declares that in Christ \u201cwe already are.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Spirit\u2019s continuing <em>subjective work in me<\/em> consists of his constant, daily driving me back to Christ\u2019s completed <em>objective work for me<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>God demonstrates His own love towards us in this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.<\/p>\n<p>[Romans 5:8]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Easter Sunday, I am reminded of the words of Tullian Tchividjian in Jesus + Nothing = Everything as he describes the gospel&#8230; Rediscovering the gospel enabled me to see that: Because Jesus was strong for me, I was free to be weak; Because Jesus won for me, I was free to lose; Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-integrity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}