When we curse somebody out by rapidly spewing four letter pleasantries while foaming at the mouth, we hardly think about the power and weight of those words on the lives of those we curse out. These days, a curse is nothing more than an expression of frustrated emotions that is as improperly expressed as it is incapable of relieving the frustration experienced by the curser. What I am saying is that we curse so freely, and with such utter disregard, that the accursed benignly take upon themselves the identity of the curse and live into those wretched and cursed expectations. Consequently, us as the ones who curse these people, bear the burden of our own curses by suffering the accursed in our lives. For example, we call our siblings “stupid” and we keep cursing him/her as stupid, whether we say this directly or behind their backs is another story, but what usually happens is that we find our “stupid” siblings actually getting stupider. I know the argument here is that you only use the word “stupid” as an adjective to describe the mental condition and predicament of your sibling, but it is a curse that places a burden on both them and you, because you have to bear watching and experiencing them in their stupidity. In a sense, this is self-fulfilling prophecy. You can follow this logic with every other curse uttered. You start calling somebody a “motherf*****”, or an a**hole”, or “sh**head”, etc, and you will notice how much that this accursed person actually begins to embody those curses. Maybe, you don’t curse so explicitly like myself and your curses are subtle and passive-aggressive and so you say things like, “why are you so… (insert your pet peeves here)?” Slowly and steadily, you will find that person become more and more the epitome of your peeves. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for usfor it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree” – Galatians 3:13 The Old Testament laws curse us to inequity. That is why, as we become older and grow with age and jadedness, we start to embody more and more of the guilt and personalities of the “thou shalt not”s. The Bible says we are enslaved to the law, it traps us into patterns we never wanted for ourselves. The law is a curse to our existence and curses us to an eternity of failure through damnation. But understand that God didn’t give us the law to curse us, but He gave us the law to realize that we are accursed and that no matter we do to adhere to a law that we cannot fully submit to, are subject to the curses of it’s penalties. The idea is archaic, but the principle in modernity is simple– the law’s curses help us see our inadequacies and need for something and somebody other than ourselves to rescue us from our curse. The more we believe in our own self-sufficiency, the more unbeknownst we are in our falling into the cursing of the law which ultimately and conclusively condemns us. If your life is anything but the 1%, you will know and have felt how cursed your life is because of the law. Perfection is elusive and a fantasy that will never be realized in our life times and the common feeling in our hearts is that everything has gone wrong, is wrong and will be wrong. The fleeting moments of happiness are just that– fleeting, like the sunset before nightfall. So we place our hope in Jesus Christ, our savior, for everything because he did not fail, does not fail, and will not fail. He removes the curse of the law when we place our hope in him because he intervenes in time, both in history and in our present lives, by becoming the accursed of the law to satisfy the requirements of perfection. If you have the feeling of being overwhelmed by curses, you can ask God to remove them from your life and the only price you have to pay is simple belief. You are redeemed, transformed and made anew by faith in God who gives new life and fresh inheritance. Bigger than that, we must consider what our response is to other people we have cursed– is it not time for us to lift the curses we placed on other people in our lives?
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