Becoming sin
Since the end of last year, the Lord continues to lead me through the narrow gate.
Matthew 7:13-14 “13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (NIV)
I know that most people teach this verse to mean heaven and hell. Although I believe that is a part of it, I believe there is more to these verses than just eternity. If you look at the surrounding scriptures, Jesus is speaking about our lives in the here and now. It does seem a little off that He would revert from “ask, seek, knock” and jump to eternity. Again, I do believe the verse does includes eternity, but as the Holy Spirit continues to lead and guide, walking through the narrow gate refers to my life now all the way through eternity. I don’t post this as if we must follow a bunch of rules, or guidelines or become religious in our ways, but we must understand that the more revelation we have about God’s grace and walk in it, the more we are going to follow the law as well as His commandments. (yes, they are different at times but never contradicting)
Through His grace, He recently revealed something amazing to me. As most of my friends know, I do struggle with gout. If you don’t know what that is, just google it and you will find more than you ever care to know about it. Since I do have that sickness plaguing my life, I continue to speak life and healing into my body. I continue to pray for divine health. I have so many brothers and sisters praying for me and I am excited to say that it is helping so much! As I continue to learn about my body, I have come to find out that gout is only one of a few things that have come against me.
I have come to realize that all the family illnesses have flowed down to me. As far as I know, both of my brothers do not suffer from any of the family illnesses which I am so thankful to God for because it sucks! So what is it that I have to battle against?
Gout - from my dad’s side
High Blood Pressure - from my mom’s side
Heart condition - from my mom’s side
Diabetes - from my dad’s side
I believe God healed me of whatever heart condition my grandma had which took her life. That is a whole other amazing story. The Diabetes, luckily isn’t full blown, but I have experienced a lot of symptoms that a diabetic would normally go through. So Gout and High Blood Pressure are the 2 biggest mountains that I face. In any case, this isn’t a post about my health issues.
The amazing revelation that God gave me was how this is similar to Jesus taking upon Himself, the sin of the world which includes mine. Everything from both sides of the family has fallen on me and when my healing manifests itself, the generational curse will be broken FOREVER! My kids, grandkids, and so forth will never have to fight this. Likewise, since my brothers are fine, my nieces/nephews and their children will never have to go through it. These things were, in a sense, placed upon me to be dealt with once and for all. Because I have to go through it, no one else behind me generationally will have to go through it. Sound familiar?
Jesus, who knew no sin, became sin so that you and I can live a free life! We don’t have to sin anymore. We don’t have to suffer with sin any longer. We don’t have to even worry about it anymore. That doesn’t mean we are never going to make a mistake, but it’s been dealt with at the cross. His grace is sufficient!
II Corinthians 5:21 “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (NASB)
I have been given deeper revelation of this scripture because of the sickness that I have had to suffer through. Jesus became sin so I can become righteous. Likewise, I have become sickness so my future generations can become healthy. The best thing is that Jesus took 40 stripes that paid for my healing! So He not only took my sins, but He took my sickness too!
By no means am I saying it’s the same or even close to being on the same level. I’m not God, I’m not Jesus and I would never claim this to be exactly the same. But the similarities have given me such a revelation of His grace that happened on the cross for ME! I hope that this gives people a greater understanding of the cross. May this simple illustration bring people deep spiritual revelation. All I can say now is just wait until my healing manifests. When it does, I will be doing a lot of things that I haven’t been able to do for the longest time! Just wait and see!