Oh, it's Good Friday again. This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. God planned it, before the foundation of the earth that on that day, after He had spent His time on earth in the body of a man, that He would die a horrible death on a cross, for us, His creation. He knew there was no other way. Jesus had to make the choice to do it, that's just the way it had to be! His purpose was to save us, to be our Redeemer from sin. By the way, we are ALL sinners and have ALL fallen short of the glory of God! Regardless of what pride tells us, Pride is a liar! We cannot be made right with God without accepting Jesus sacrifice for us. There is no other way! There is no greater love than this When we truly grasp the magnitude of Jesus love for us, it transforms our lives! It completes us. It brings us out of ignorance, out of darkness and into the marvelous light, a marvelous life. A life that is flowing with power, breath and living water!
Ephesians 3:14-21
"When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen."
This story below written by Beth Moore just this morning on her LPM blog really moved me. I hope you will be blessed by it:
"Several months ago, Melissa had insisted upon going with me to have a dye test to follow up a suspicious mammogram. (No rumors please. I do not have breast cancer. Because my mother died with it, however, I never get the luxury of drama-less annual check-ups.) We were sitting in the waiting room and a rack was within arms reach offering all manner of brochure on various cancers. Melissa took one out after another and glanced over them, shaking her head. She looked up at me with that classic expression of hers and said, "Life is brutal, man."
I nodded.
We both sat silently for just a moment.
Then she said one of the most profound things I've ever heard.
"He knows it's scary to be us."
Yes, He does. Yes, He does. He does NOT take the fact lightly that we go through medical tests to see if we have a raging cancer. He does NOT take lightly that some of you are secretly fearing that the monster has come back. He does NOT take lightly that some of you are going through the cancer treatments of your own children. I had to pause and put my hand over my mouth on that one. Holding back the tears.
Son of David, have mercy on us! You know it's scary to be us! It's almost too much here, Lord. It's almost too much.
And the thunder crashes in the heavens and the earth grows dark in the middle of the afternoon and a man, beaten to a bloody pulp, cries from a cross between two thieves, "It is finished!"
And death is overcome.
One day, Sweet Darling. ONE DAY. We will trade that hem for the real Him and there will be no more sickness. No more death. No more sadness. We will all be healed.
Bliss."
I pray that you have an incredible, beautiful, powerful, forgiven, redeemed, blessed Easter!
Love,
Brandi
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