Dear Friends,
Condemned. It’s a hard word. A condemned anything… a school or home or park carries with it the idea that there once was a time of usefulness, value and purpose. But no longer.
Bridges get condemned primarily due to faulty design, poor materials, or inadequate support.
Our government has recently approved over $26 billion to replace or rehabilitate bridges across our country. The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Silver Bridge in Gallipolis, Ohio, killing 46 people may not have happened had these bridges been condemned.
The condemnation of buildings, parks, bridges and other objects serves the purpose of keeping people safe or making way for something better. But condemnation does not serve God’s purpose with people. Condemnation makes people neither safe nor better.
Condemnation is not God’s action plan for us. Rather it is our brokenness, our sin, our feelings of uselessness that stir God’s heart with compassion. It is why He has come for us, to redeem us, to restore us, to bring us into a place of worth and usefulness.
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” John 3:17
“There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…” Romans 8:1
Consider God’s action plan… and have a great day.
~Wynn