A "laid down life" doesn't necessarily have to end in death! For Jesus, death was a short interlude in His time on earth! He had business that He had to attend to, for the sake of us - His friends, and for the sake of His Father! He suffered so that we wouldn't have to! That DOES NOT mean that we will have an easy, smooth, pain and suffering free life here on earth, because we live in a fallen world! That means that we will not have to suffer the agony of eternal separation from God! Jesus was separated from God for a short time so that we wouldn't be separated from Him for eternity.
How then, does it make both the Father and Jesus feel, when, in our arrogance and pig-headed stubborn pride, we say to God that we neither need nor want what Jesus suffered, died and rose to life to give us? How is it that we feel that we can scorn and slurry what we were given?
Before Jesus died, He showed us love and grace. He forgave sins and healed the sick! When He suffered, He showed grace - Father forgive them for they know not what they do! When He rose to life He continued to show grace.
Grace isn't some whimpy powerless thing that gives us the ability to do whatever the hell we please!
Grace is the power to live in a fallen world! Grace is the power to believe! Grace is the power to forgive! Grace is the power to love unconditionally! Grace is the power and the ability to repent! Grace is the power to walk in Gods freedom within the boundaries of His love!
This Jesus, who loved us so much that it killed Him, loved so much that He did more than just die! He was God - death has no power over God! This Jesus, the Son of God, He reconciled us to the Father and the Father to us! He made it possible for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit! It was more than just a simple death and resurrection! He gave us His all!
He gave us His life, for us to learn to live like Him! Starting with His death - not my will but Yours be done! He laid down His life completely to the will of the Father!
Will you lay your life down completely to the will of the Father??
May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!
How then, does it make both the Father and Jesus feel, when, in our arrogance and pig-headed stubborn pride, we say to God that we neither need nor want what Jesus suffered, died and rose to life to give us? How is it that we feel that we can scorn and slurry what we were given?
Before Jesus died, He showed us love and grace. He forgave sins and healed the sick! When He suffered, He showed grace - Father forgive them for they know not what they do! When He rose to life He continued to show grace.
Grace isn't some whimpy powerless thing that gives us the ability to do whatever the hell we please!
Grace is the power to live in a fallen world! Grace is the power to believe! Grace is the power to forgive! Grace is the power to love unconditionally! Grace is the power and the ability to repent! Grace is the power to walk in Gods freedom within the boundaries of His love!
This Jesus, who loved us so much that it killed Him, loved so much that He did more than just die! He was God - death has no power over God! This Jesus, the Son of God, He reconciled us to the Father and the Father to us! He made it possible for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit! It was more than just a simple death and resurrection! He gave us His all!
He gave us His life, for us to learn to live like Him! Starting with His death - not my will but Yours be done! He laid down His life completely to the will of the Father!
Will you lay your life down completely to the will of the Father??
May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!
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