A Mythic Tale…

Let me tell you a story of the person you were meant to become.

The story begins with the original ancestor of your tribe. He was given the special gift of the glory of God upon him. He was perfect and righteous in every way�a man fully alive! His spouse was the same. They were good�through and through.

Then, one day, they were beguiled by a slithery snake. They were told they could TRADE their glory for knowledge that would give them the ability to be equal (maybe even replace) the God of glory. The magical enchantment this snake possessed was convincing and they conceded to the trade.

But they were deceived.

The snake took their glory and the full life that came with it, and in his deceit led their empty broken hearts away to be imprisoned by the lies he would continue to deceive them by. And one by one, every descendent of this original tribesman, has been led down the same slithery path of lies. Every heart, locked away from the glory of God.

That fatal day, God’s heart broke. The fate of this tribe was doomed. Or so it would appear. Something would need to be done to break this wicked spell, this curse from the pits of darkness.

And then, it happened. In the fullness of time, it happened. God’s glory was born into this world through a Second Tribesman. Through the first tribesman, sin and the removal of God’s glory came upon the tribe. But through the Second Tribesman, the tribe would be reconciled once again to God. Yet not without a cost. To secure this noble reclamation, the Second Tribesman would need to lay down his life in exchange for the slithery curse to be broken. The sinless Second Tribesman would die.

In this exchange, the Second Tribesman would descend into the depths of the imprisoning place to rescue and set free the hearts that had been held captive for so long. But, a discovery was to be made. These hearts that had been deceived and held captive had long withered away, and turned to stone. How could new life enter such old decrepit withered away hearts?

With ordinary tribesmen, this is impossible, but not with the Second Tribesman for He is a Master Tribesman. He created a new enchantment to come against the old slithery enchantment of the snake. Through this new enchantment, He mystically cut away old withered hearts, and replaced them with NEW hearts. It is a mysterious process He refers to as being “born again.�

And in this rebirth, a wonderful thing happened�the hearts of the tribes-people were re-created into something new. Something GLORIOUSLY NEW! A New Creation! Old things were gone, and all things became new!

But the snake, that slithery despicable creature, would not stand by and just watch his evil magic fall to naught. In his treachery, he dreamed up another diabolical enchantment. One that would cast a veil over those whose hearts had been rescued and re-created. Another lie that would deceive the new noble tribes-people to falsely believe that their new hearts were not really good at all, but still steeped in sin and treachery. This new enchantment would once again form a prison around the hearts of God’s tribe, and bind them from the full glory and transformation that awaited them.

Hence the opening: “Let me tell you a story of the person you were meant to become�

Is it possible to cast off the veil that has so deceived us? To claim hold of our new hearts, and choose to live as the new noble tribe we were meant to be? To no longer believe the ancient lies told to our ancestors, and used to restrain the Master’s reclamation? Are we more than conquerors through our new Master Tribesman? Can we do all things through Him?

The enemy would like you to believe the negative. For if we would believe, he would surely be defeated, and this world would be a different place.

This is the person you were meant to become. A person fully alive and brimming with the glory of God. A person fully capable of accomplishing all the dreams of the heart.

If only we believed….