April 18, 2019 – Click here to listen
We are fast approaching the best holiday of the year and the holiest time of the year and it has absolutely nothing to do with any Easter Bunny. This celebration is about Jesus Christ being crucified and three days later arising from the grave and death being defeated forever.
It is hard to imagine the glory surrounding God and the place that He lives. I have been in some high dollar homes and seen my share of splendor in some beautiful places in my lifelong journeys, but it is nothing in comparison. I can envision Jesus being attended to by innumerable glorious angels in the most beautiful of settings from a throne that is so beautiful that it would take our breath to look at it.
I imagine He pondered the curse upon mankind and it became evident that there was but one way for reconcilement to occur and that was to leave His beautiful heavenly abode and His role as ruler of all creation and take on a role of a simple carpenter who after thirty three years of living a sinless perfect life would be terribly crucified on our behalf. How it must have agonized Him to think of the suffering that He must endure on our behalf. As His eye roamed the earth and He viewed mankind from a perspective of past, present and future. Imagine the terrible sins that he viewed from His rebellious creatures and yet for some unfathomable reason He has a deep love and tremendous compassion for every single one of us; a love that was so deep that it moved Him to literally take on the form of a lowly man and die an agonizing death as payment for our sins.
Yes God loves us with a love that is far deeper than anyone can imagine. There are times when perhaps we question that love, particularly when times are bad. All one needs to do is remember how Jesus suffered and that He left paradise and His throne entirely on His own accord and out of His love for us in order that we may be with Him again forever. The very least one can do is attend church this Sunday and worship Him and say a prayer right now where you sit and thank God almighty for what he has done on our behalf.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek the Lord while He may be found.
Call upon Him while He is near.