Jason Betler

husband | father | The Nations Hope | hopamine addict

[Jason Betler @JasonBetler]

@TheNewMystics What a relief! And here we were, thinking it was all about "me."

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@markchironna The status quo "so I can get into heaven" sales pitch has jettisoned incarnational truth so long ago. So glad the tide is changing.

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@RobertGreene There's always more to explore ☺️

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@markchironna This resonates deeply.

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@benkclee Yes and Amen!

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Classrooms and spiritual things rarely go together. Marriage, parenthood, birthdays, etc are to lived out and celebrated. We claim Jesus gives life. Not a passing grade or certificate. This makes spiritual experience or exercise void of community suspicious.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

We don’t live in a fairy tale. In this temporal world, there is no neatly wrapped “happily ever after.” To chase that illusion is to risk continual disappointment and confusion. But there’s something deeper and far more hopeful available to us.

Accepting that life is imperfect, unresolved, and sometimes painful is not resignation. It’s wisdom. It frees us to say “yes” to life as it actually is, rather than how we imagine or wish it might be.

This realistic embrace doesn’t destroy hope, it actually nurtures it. Because the hope we carry is not that we’ll eventually get everything right here and now. Our hope is more enduring. It comes from beyond this temporal unfolding, anchored in the character of the One who has promised ultimate joy, ultimate wholeness, ultimate peace.

Our hope is secured not by wishful thinking or human striving, but by the One who entered fully into death, defeated death with death, and by rising, poured out life to all held captive by the grave. He faced the tomb, not to be conquered, but to conquer; He descended, not to remain imprisoned, but to lead the captives home. Christ is risen, and because of this, death has no more final say. Christ is risen, and because of this, life has the last word. This is the foundation of our hope: Christ, who overcame death by death and freely gives life to all who dwell in shadow.

This is the paradox of genuine faith: it is deeply realistic and profoundly hopeful at once. It grieves without despair, and rejoices without pretense. Because our final chapter, our promised destiny, isn’t found in the temporal story. It’s found in the eternal faithfulness of the One who holds the end from the beginning.

And in Him, our “yes” to life becomes a courageous, resilient, and hope-filled journey toward everlasting joy.

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@markchironna Amen!

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@musk_news13 Rumpelstiltskin

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Love, lived on its own, is darkness.

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@JohnPiper That was a child-like remark. But we all need to hear it; from the littlest to the loudest and proudest.

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@LeadingReport The lives lost, families ruined, and generations to suffer the lasting effects of evil is heartbreaking. The role of all parties involved is senseless and shameful. The US failed the world. Ukraine enjoyed the attention too much. And Putin could have also restrained himself.

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@TheNewMystics Low hanging fruit. lol

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@elonmuskTN R

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"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket" Eric Hoffer

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@markchironna This is wonderfully spot-on!

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@anglochog Enjoy your "isms" while you have them. 😎

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@ElonMuskOde Reminds me of a local high school mascot... Or a biker gang.

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@TheNewMystics With you, @TheNewMystics. Also tired of stupid narratives at funerals! Admittedly, it took me a few years of seeing the big picture of the Father's redemptive love in Scripture(apocatastasis) & seeing Christ still in the pain of my own family to confirm. God does not kill.