Reach
God covered our sin-problem even before He spoke creation into existence and reached His perfect fingers into those dark layers of dirt to design us.
Son
Even before God shaped Adam and Eve, He fashioned our future with His own flesh and blood. He devised a plan involving His perfect Lamb who would rescue us from our dirty selves and every muddy place we’d ever tread.
[box] The lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. Revelation 13:8[/box]
Story
The most powerful stories involve death, whether it’s the death of a person, the death of a reputation, or the death of a dream. Authors know death is the lifeblood of story, highlighting hope and redemption (love, sacrifice, and forgiveness), but compared to the love story God writes for us, everything else only scrapes the surface.
Destiny
[box] Jesus answered,”I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6[/box]
Dirt-dwellers may try to persuade us that God’s bloody love story is only a foolhardy fairytale, but we know differently because we live it. And no human being on earth, no demon in hell, has the power to keep Truth in the grave!
Truth-Killer?
Not me, you say. But we all plead guilty when we ignore the voice of truth.
Don’t touch that. It will hurt you.
Like wayward children, we ignore God’s voice, reach for that hot cookie tray, and get burned.
Lie-buster
Then, when our arms shoot up for Him, He lifts us again in His healing embrace.
Scooping us out of the dark, LOVE teaches us the joy of grace’s liberating light. For out of the vein of Love Himself, pours forgiveness, free as blood.
[box] For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:37, 38[/box]
Cross before me
Easter Sunday songs may fade as life tries to pull us back to the stressful cares of this world–but, like little children (now stubborn in a good way), we don’t need to forget His call to remember:
Every day is Easter Sunday when we live in His risen power.
We don’t need to wait for our next fall before we lift our arms in surrender:
Loving Daddy, thank you for Your covering!
[box] The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you. Romans 8:11[/box]
Good to know Christ is the once and for all guarantee of forgiveness of sins. We only need his grace and mercy and sin, well, “it is finished”.
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